Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Fence » Hedge
Your guardsmen are like the swarming locusts.
Your marshals are like the hordes of grasshoppers
Settling in the stone walls on a cold day.
When the sun rises, they fly away,
And no one knows the place where they are.
“So now let me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard:
I will take away its thorn-hedge, and it will be burned up;
I will break down its
He who digs a pit [for others] may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a [stone] wall.
The way of the lazy is like a hedge of thorns [it pricks, lacerates, and entangles him],
But the way [of life] of the upright is smooth and open like a highway.
“Therefore, behold, I [the Lord God] will hedge up her way with thorns;
And I will build a wall against her [shutting off her way] so that she cannot find her paths.
Hedges » Danger of breaking through
He who digs a pit [for others] may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a [stone] wall.
Insecurity of the wicked » Fall of the wicked foretold
The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit [deep and inescapable];
He who is cursed by the Lord [because of his adulterous sin] will fall into it.
“Were they ashamed because they had committed disgusting and vile things?
No, they were not at all ashamed;
They did not even know how to blush [at their idolatry].
Therefore they will fall among those who fall;
At the time that I punish them
They will be overthrown,” says the Lord.
“Those who swear [their oaths] by the sin (guilt) of Samaria or Ashimah (a pagan goddess),
Who say, ‘By the life of your god [the golden calf], O Dan!’
And [swear], ‘By the life of the way of [idolatrous] Beersheba,’
They shall fall and not rise again.”
The righteousness of the blameless will smooth their way and keep it straight,
But the wicked will fall by his own wickedness.
He who digs a pit [for others] may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a [stone] wall.
I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute
Or your brides when they commit adultery,
For the men themselves slip away with prostitutes,
And they offer sacrifices with temple prostitutes [who give their bodies in honor of the idol].
So the people without understanding [stumble and fall and] come to ruin.
“Moreover [Jeremiah], you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord,
“Do men fall and not rise up again?
Does one turn away [from God] and not repent and return [to Him]?
Does one turn away [from God] and not repent and return [to Him]?
Pit » Figurative
They
My very life was bowed down.
They dug a pit before me;
Into the midst of it they themselves have fallen. Selah.
He who leads the upright astray on an evil path
Will himself fall into his own pit,
But the blameless will inherit good.
He brought me up out of a horrible pit [of tumult and of destruction], out of the miry clay,
And He set my feet upon a rock, steadying my footsteps and establishing my path.
For a prostitute is a deep pit,
And an immoral woman is a narrow well.
He who digs a pit [for others] may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a [stone] wall.
He made a pit and hollowed it out and has fallen into the hole which he made [before the trap was completed]. His mischief shall fall back in return upon his own head, and his violence come down [with the loose dirt] upon his own scalp.
Do not let the floodwater overwhelm me,
Nor the deep waters swallow me up,
Nor the pit [of Sheol] shut its mouth over me.
The arrogant (godless) have dug pits for me,
Men who do not conform to Your law.
Whoever digs a pit [for another man’s feet] will fall into it,
And he who rolls a stone [up a hill to do mischief], it will come back on him.
“The one who flees from the terror
Will fall into the pit,
And the one who gets up out of the pit
Will be taken and caught in the trap;
For I shall bring upon it, even upon Moab,
The year of their punishment,” says the Lord.
Serpent » Subtlety of
Now the serpent was more crafty (subtle, skilled in deceit) than any living creature of the field which the Lord God had made. And the serpent (Satan) said to the woman, “Can it really be that God has said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”
He who digs a pit [for others] may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a [stone] wall.
Serpents » Infest » Hedges
He who digs a pit [for others] may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a [stone] wall.
The wicked » Appointed by God corrupt » Snared
He who leads the upright astray on an evil path
Will himself fall into his own pit,
But the blameless will inherit good.
“For the wicked is thrown into a net by his own feet (wickedness),
And he steps on the webbing [of the lattice-covered pit].
The nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.
He who digs a pit [for others] may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a [stone] wall.
Thorns and snares are in the way of the obstinate [for their lack of honor and their wrong-doing traps them];
He who guards himself [with godly wisdom] will be far from them and avoid the consequences they suffer.
Whoever digs a pit [for another man’s feet] will fall into it,
And he who rolls a stone [up a hill to do mischief], it will come back on him.
By his wicked plan an evil man is trapped,
But the righteous man sings and rejoices [for his plan brings good things to him].
“Many [among them] will stumble over them;
Then they will fall and be broken,
They will even be snared and trapped.”
The wicked » Devices of » Fall of the wicked foretold
The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit [deep and inescapable];
He who is cursed by the Lord [because of his adulterous sin] will fall into it.
“Were they ashamed because they had committed disgusting and vile things?
No, they were not at all ashamed;
They did not even know how to blush [at their idolatry].
Therefore they will fall among those who fall;
At the time that I punish them
They will be overthrown,” says the Lord.
“Those who swear [their oaths] by the sin (guilt) of Samaria or Ashimah (a pagan goddess),
Who say, ‘By the life of your god [the golden calf], O Dan!’
And [swear], ‘By the life of the way of [idolatrous] Beersheba,’
They shall fall and not rise again.”
The righteousness of the blameless will smooth their way and keep it straight,
But the wicked will fall by his own wickedness.
He who digs a pit [for others] may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a [stone] wall.
I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute
Or your brides when they commit adultery,
For the men themselves slip away with prostitutes,
And they offer sacrifices with temple prostitutes [who give their bodies in honor of the idol].
So the people without understanding [stumble and fall and] come to ruin.
“Moreover [Jeremiah], you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord,
“Do men fall and not rise up again?
Does one turn away [from God] and not repent and return [to Him]?
Does one turn away [from God] and not repent and return [to Him]?