16 Bible Verses about Figurative Walls

Their heart cried to the Lord, "O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears stream down like a river; day and night, do not give yourself relief, do not give your eyes rest.

And I will be for it a wall of fire all around,' {declares} Yahweh, 'and I will be [the] glory in its midst.'"

Violence shall no longer be heard in your land; devastation or destruction on your borders. And you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates, Praise.

On that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "{We have a strong city}; he sets up victory [like] walls and ramparts!

And [so] I sought for them somebody, one repairing [the] wall and standing in the breach {before me} on behalf of the land not to destroy it, but I did not find [anyone],

Joseph [is] the bough of a fruitful vine, a fruitful bough by a spring. His branches climb over the wall.

For by you I can run a raid; by my God I can leap over a wall.

For with you I can charge a troop, and with my God I can scale a wall.

And the {Israelites} entered the middle of the sea on the dry land. The waters [were] a wall for them on their right and on their left.

But the {Israelites} walked on the dry land in the middle of the sea. The waters [were] a wall for them on their right and on their left.

Are you better than Thebes? She who sits at the Nile, surrounded by her waters, her rampart [was the] sea and water [was] her wall.

They were a wall to us both night and day, all {the days we were} with them keeping the sheep.

Now look, I have made you {today} as a fortified city and as an iron pillar and a bronze wall against all the land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

And I will make you to this people a wall of fortified bronze, and they will fight against you, but they will not prevail over you, for I [am] with you, to save you, and to deliver you," {declares} Yahweh.

Then Paul said to him, "God is going to strike you, [you] whitewashed wall! And are you sitting [there] judging me according to the law, and acting contrary to the law do you order me to be struck?"

The wealth of the rich [is] {his strong city}, and like a wall, it is high in his imagination.