Thematic Bible: Fence
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.
Verse Concepts
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.
Fence » Made of stone walls
He dug it all around and cleared away its stones,
And planted it with
And He built a tower in the center of it;
And also hewed out a
Then He expected it to produce [the choicest] grapes,
But it produced only worthless ones.
But the Angel of the Lord stood in a narrow path of the vineyards, with a [stone] wall on this side and a [stone] wall on that side.
Verse Concepts
How long will you attack a man
So that you may murder him, all of you,
Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
I went by the field of the lazy man, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; And, behold, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles were covering its face, and its stone wall was broken down.
It shall be a day for building your walls,
On that day the boundary [of Israel] shall be [greatly] extended.
Fence » Figurative
I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before Me for [the sake of] the land, that I would not destroy it, but I found no one [not even one].
Verse Concepts