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 » Danger of breaking through
Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And whoso is breaking a hedge, a serpent biteth him.
Insecurity of the wicked » Fall of the wicked foretold
A deep pit is the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.
They were ashamed when they did abomination! Yea, they are not at all ashamed, Yea, blushing they have not known, Therefore they do fall among those falling, In the time I have inspected them, They stumble, said Jehovah.
Those swearing by the guilt of Samaria, And have said, Live doth thy god, O Dan, And, Live doth the way of Beer-Sheba, And they have fallen -- and rise not again!'
The righteousness of the perfect maketh right his way, And by his wickedness doth the wicked fall.
Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And whoso is breaking a hedge, a serpent biteth him.
Therefore commit whoredom do your daughters, And your spouses commit adultery, I do not see after your daughters when they commit whoredom, And after your spouses when they commit adultery, For they with the harlots are separated, And with the whores they do sacrifice, A people that doth not understand kicketh.
And thou hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah, Do they fall, and not rise? Doth he turn back, and not return?
Pit » Figurative
A net they have prepared for my steps, Bowed down hath my soul, They have digged before me a pit, They have fallen into its midst. Selah.
Whoso is causing the upright to err in an evil way, Into his own pit he doth fall, And the perfect do inherit good.
And He doth cause me to come up From a pit of desolation -- from mire of mud, And He raiseth up on a rock my feet, He is establishing my steps.
For a harlot is a deep ditch, And a strange woman is a strait pit.
Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And whoso is breaking a hedge, a serpent biteth him.
A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh. Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.
Let not a flood of waters overflow me, Nor let the deep swallow me up, Nor let the pit shut her mouth upon me.
The proud have digged for me pits, That are not according to Thy law.
Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And the roller of a stone, to him it turneth.
Whoso is fleeing because of the fear falleth into the snare, And whoso is coming up from the snare is captured by the gin, For I bring in unto her -- unto Moab -- The year of their inspection, An affirmation of Jehovah.
Serpent » Subtlety of
And the serpent hath been subtile above every beast of the field which Jehovah God hath made, and he saith unto the woman, 'Is it true that God hath said, Ye do not eat of every tree of the garden?'
'Lo, I do send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be ye therefore wise as the serpents, and simple as the doves.
Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And whoso is breaking a hedge, a serpent biteth him.
Serpents » Infest » Hedges
Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And whoso is breaking a hedge, a serpent biteth him.
The wicked » Appointed by God corrupt » Snared
Whoso is causing the upright to err in an evil way, Into his own pit he doth fall, And the perfect do inherit good.
Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured.
Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And whoso is breaking a hedge, a serpent biteth him.
Thorns -- snares are in the way of the perverse, Whoso is keeping his soul is far from them.
Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And the roller of a stone, to him it turneth.
In the transgression of the evil is a snare, And the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
And many among them have stumbled and fallen, And been broken, and snared, and captured.
The wicked » Devices of » Fall of the wicked foretold
A deep pit is the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.
They were ashamed when they did abomination! Yea, they are not at all ashamed, Yea, blushing they have not known, Therefore they do fall among those falling, In the time I have inspected them, They stumble, said Jehovah.
Those swearing by the guilt of Samaria, And have said, Live doth thy god, O Dan, And, Live doth the way of Beer-Sheba, And they have fallen -- and rise not again!'
The righteousness of the perfect maketh right his way, And by his wickedness doth the wicked fall.
Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And whoso is breaking a hedge, a serpent biteth him.
Therefore commit whoredom do your daughters, And your spouses commit adultery, I do not see after your daughters when they commit whoredom, And after your spouses when they commit adultery, For they with the harlots are separated, And with the whores they do sacrifice, A people that doth not understand kicketh.
And thou hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah, Do they fall, and not rise? Doth he turn back, and not return?