Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Fence » Hedge
'Hear ye another simile: There was a certain man, a householder, who planted a vineyard, and did put a hedge round it, and digged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad.
Thy crowned ones are as a locust, And thy princes as great grasshoppers, That encamp in hedges in a day of cold, The sun hath risen, and it doth flee away, And not known is its place where they are.
And now, pray, let me cause you to know, That which I am doing to my vineyard, To turn aside its hedge, And it hath been for consumption, To break down its wall, And it hath been for a treading-place.
Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And whoso is breaking a hedge, a serpent biteth him.
The way of the slothful is as a hedge of briers, And the path of the upright is raised up.
Therefore, lo, I am hedging up thy way with thorns, And I have made for her a wall, And her paths she doth not find.
Hedges » Illustrative » Of heavy judgments
Therefore, lo, I am hedging up thy way with thorns, And I have made for her a wall, And her paths she doth not find.
Thorn » Used » Hedges formed of
Their best one is as a brier, The upright one -- than a thorn-hedge, The day of thy watchmen -- Thy visitation -- hath come. Now is their perplexity.
Therefore, lo, I am hedging up thy way with thorns, And I have made for her a wall, And her paths she doth not find.