Thematic Bible: Hedges


Thematic Bible



My sister, my bride, you are a locked garden—
a locked garden and a sealed spring.

ו VavHe has done violence to His temple
as if it were a garden booth,
destroying His place of meeting.
The Lord has abolished
appointed festivals and Sabbaths in Zion.
He has despised king and priest
in His fierce anger.


ג GimelHe has walled me in so I cannot escape;
He has weighed me down with chains.

Therefore, this is what I will do:
I will block her way with thorns;
I will enclose her with a wall,
so that she cannot find her paths.


I searched for a man among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land so that I might not destroy it, but I found no one.

You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall around the house of Israel so that it might stand in battle on the day of the Lord.


“Listen to another parable: There was a man, a landowner, who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. He leased it to tenant farmers and went away.

He broke up the soil, cleared it of stones,
and planted it with the finest vines.
He built a tower in the middle of it
and even dug out a winepress there.
He expected it to yield good grapes,
but it yielded worthless grapes.


“Listen to another parable: There was a man, a landowner, who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. He leased it to tenant farmers and went away.

Then He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug out a pit for a winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went away.


Now I will tell you
what I am about to do to My vineyard:
I will remove its hedge,
and it will be consumed;
I will tear down its wall,
and it will be trampled.

Why have You broken down its walls
so that all who pass by pick its fruit?


Why is life given to a man whose path is hidden,
whom God has hedged in?

He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass through;
He has veiled my paths with darkness.


The one who digs a pit may fall into it,
and the one who breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.


They were the potters and residents of Netaim and Gederah. They lived there in the service of the king.


A slacker’s way is like a thorny hedge,
but the path of the upright is a highway.


A slacker’s way is like a thorny hedge,
but the path of the upright is a highway.


Why have You broken down its walls so that all who pass by pick its fruit? The boar from the forest gnaws at it, and creatures of the field feed on it.


Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is devastated;
cry out, daughters of Rabbah!
Clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and lament;
run back and forth within your walls,
because Milcom will go into exile
together with his priests and officials.


“Then the master told the slave, ‘Go out into the highways and lanes and make them come in, so that my house may be filled.


Your court officials are like the swarming locust,
and your scribes like clouds of locusts,
which settle on the walls on a cold day;
when the sun rises, they take off,
and no one knows where they are.


He broke up the soil, cleared it of stones,
and planted it with the finest vines.
He built a tower in the middle of it
and even dug out a winepress there.
He expected it to yield good grapes,
but it yielded worthless grapes.


The best of them is like a brier;
the most upright is worse than a hedge of thorns.
The day of your watchmen,
the day of your punishment, is coming;
at this time their panic is here.


Haven’t You placed a hedge around him, his household, and everything he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.


The one who digs a pit may fall into it,
and the one who breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.


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