Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Fence » Hedge
"Listen to another parable: There was a man--a master of a house--who planted a vineyard, and put a fence [around] it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey.
Your officials [are] like locusts; your commanders [are] like a swarm of locusts. They encamp on the walls on a cold day; when the sun rises, they fly away-- no one knows where they have gone.
And now let me tell you what I myself am about to do to my vineyard. [I will] remove its hedge, and it shall become a devastation. [I will] break down its wall, and it shall become a trampling.
Whoever digs a pit will fall into it. Whoever breaks through a wall, a snake will bite him.
The way of the lazy is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright [is] a highway.
Therefore, Look! I [am] going to hedge her path {with thorns}, and I will build a stone wall, a stone wall [against] her, and she will not find her paths.
Hedges » Danger of breaking through
Whoever digs a pit will fall into it. Whoever breaks through a wall, a snake will bite him.
Insecurity of the wicked » Fall of the wicked foretold
A deep pit is the mouth of an {adulteress}, [he with whom] Yahweh is angry will fall there.
Have they acted ashamed, for they have committed a detestable thing? Not at all, nor were they ashamed; they did not know to feel humiliated. {Therefore} they will fall among [those who] fall at the time I punish them, they will stumble," says Yahweh.
[These are] those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, 'By the life of your gods, O Dan,' and 'By the life of the way of Beersheba,' they will fall and they will not rise again."
The righteousness of the blameless will keep his ways straight, but the wicked will fall by his wickedness.
Whoever digs a pit will fall into it. Whoever breaks through a wall, a snake will bite him.
{I will not punish your daughters} when they play the whore, or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery; because they go aside with whores, and they sacrifice with temple prostitutes, a people that does not understand comes to ruin.
"And you shall say to them, 'Thus asks Yahweh: "Do men fall and not stand up? If one turns away does he not return?
Pit » Figurative
They have set a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down. They have dug a pit before me; they have fallen into the midst of it. Selah
He who misleads the upright onto the way of evil, into his pits he will fall. But as for the blameless, they will inherit good.
And [so] he brought me up from [the] roaring pit, from the miry clay. And he put my feet upon a rock; he made my steps steady.
For a deep pit is a prostitute, and a narrow well is {an adulteress}.
Whoever digs a pit will fall into it. Whoever breaks through a wall, a snake will bite him.
He makes a pit and digs it out, then falls in [the] trap he has made. His trouble comes back on his head, and his violence comes down on his skull.
Do not let the torrent of waters flood over me, or [the] deep swallow me, or the pit close its mouth over me.
[The] arrogant have dug pits for me, which [is] not according to your law.
He who digs a pit, in it he will fall, and he who rolls a stone, on him it will come back.
"He [who] flees {before} the dread will fall into the pit, and the [one who] climbs up from the pit will be caught in the trapping net, for I will bring on Moab the year of their punishment," {declares} Yahweh.
Serpent » Subtlety of
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other {wild animal} which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God indeed say, 'You shall not eat from any tree in the garden'?"
"Behold, I am sending you out like sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
Whoever digs a pit will fall into it. Whoever breaks through a wall, a snake will bite him.
Serpents » Infest » Hedges
Whoever digs a pit will fall into it. Whoever breaks through a wall, a snake will bite him.
The wicked » Appointed by God corrupt » Snared
He who misleads the upright onto the way of evil, into his pits he will fall. But as for the blameless, they will inherit good.
[The] nations have fallen in [the] pit [that] they made; their foot is caught in [the] net that they hid.
Whoever digs a pit will fall into it. Whoever breaks through a wall, a snake will bite him.
Thorns [and] snares [are] in the way of the perverse; he who guards himself will keep away from them.
He who digs a pit, in it he will fall, and he who rolls a stone, on him it will come back.
In transgression, an evil man [is] a snare, but [the] righteous will sing and rejoice.
And many shall stumble among them, and they shall fall and they shall be broken, and they shall be ensnared and they shall be caught."
The wicked » Devices of » Fall of the wicked foretold
A deep pit is the mouth of an {adulteress}, [he with whom] Yahweh is angry will fall there.
Have they acted ashamed, for they have committed a detestable thing? Not at all, nor were they ashamed; they did not know to feel humiliated. {Therefore} they will fall among [those who] fall at the time I punish them, they will stumble," says Yahweh.
[These are] those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, 'By the life of your gods, O Dan,' and 'By the life of the way of Beersheba,' they will fall and they will not rise again."
The righteousness of the blameless will keep his ways straight, but the wicked will fall by his wickedness.
Whoever digs a pit will fall into it. Whoever breaks through a wall, a snake will bite him.
{I will not punish your daughters} when they play the whore, or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery; because they go aside with whores, and they sacrifice with temple prostitutes, a people that does not understand comes to ruin.
"And you shall say to them, 'Thus asks Yahweh: "Do men fall and not stand up? If one turns away does he not return?