16 Bible Verses about Figurative Walls

Cry out from your heart to the Lord, wall of fair Zion! Let your tears run down like a river day and night. Allow yourself no rest, and don't stop crying.

I myself will be an encircling rampart of fire,' declares the LORD, "and I will be the glory in her midst.'

Then violence will no longer be heard in your land, nor devastation or destruction within your borders; but you'll call your walls "Salvation', and your gates "Praise'.

At that time, people will sing this song in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city; God crafts victory, its walls and ramparts.

I sought for a man among them to build the wall and stand in the breach in my presence on behalf of the land so that it won't be destroyed, but I found no one,

"Joseph is descended from a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine planted near springs of water. His branches climb over walls.

By you I devastate armies, by my God I scale walls.

With your help I will run through an army, with help from my God I leap over walls.

the Israelis went into the middle of the sea on dry land, and the waters formed a wall for them on their right and on their left.

But the Israelis walked through the middle of the sea on dry land, and the water stood like a wall for them on their right and on their left.

"Are you any better than Thebes, which sits by the upper Nile, surrounded by water? The sea was her defense, the waters her wall of protection.

They were a wall around us both day and night, all the time we were with them taking care of the sheep.

"As for me, today I'm making you a fortified city, an iron pillar, and a bronze wall against the whole land against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

I'll make you a fortified wall of bronze to this people. They'll fight against you, but they won't prevail against you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you,"

At this Paul told him, "God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! How can you sit there and judge me according to the Law, and yet in violation of the Law order me to be struck?"

The wealth of a rich person is his fortified city; in his own imagination, it is like a high wall.