Thematic Bible: Fence


Thematic Bible



Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country. Verse ConceptsJourneyOccupationsTowersVineyardWallsFortsExcavationTreading GrapesLeasinglent

Your crowned ones are like the locusts, and your scribes like the clouds of insects which take cover in the walls on a cold day, but when the sun comes up they go in flight, and are seen no longer in their place. Verse ConceptsGrasshoppersHot WeatherCold WeatherUnknown ThingsEvil Fleeing

And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it; Verse ConceptsWallsFigurative Fields

He who makes a hole for others will himself go into it, and for him who makes a hole through a wall the bite of a snake will be a punishment. Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedDigging Pits

Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway. Verse ConceptsHighwayIdlenessSluggardsThornsTroubleProcrastinationHard TasksWorking Hard And Not Being Lazysloth

For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way. Verse ConceptsMan's WaysThornsPaths Of The WickedNot FindingHard TasksWeedPathsroadblocks

And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsFortsExcavationWineskins And Vats

Then the angel of the Lord took up his position in a narrow road through the vine-gardens, with a wall on this side and on that. Verse ConceptsVineyardNarrow Things

How long will you go on designing evil against a man? running against him as against a broken wall, which is on the point of falling? Verse ConceptsEvil PlansWalls

I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense; And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.

A day for building your walls! in that day will your limits be stretched far and wide. Verse ConceptsBuildingSpreadingRebuilding JerusalemWork Ethicbordersconstructionrebuilding

And I was looking for a man among them who would make up the wall and take his station in the broken place before me for the land, so that I might not send destruction on it: but there was no one. Verse ConceptsPrayerlessnessWallsGapsFigurative WallsNo One AvailableMasculinitybridges

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain