Thematic Bible: Fence


Thematic Bible



“Listen to another parable: There was a man, a landowner, who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. He leased it to tenant farmers and went away. Verse ConceptsJourneyOccupationsTowersVineyardWallsFortsExcavationTreading GrapesLeasinglent

Your court officials are like the swarming locust,
and your scribes like clouds of locusts,
which settle on the walls on a cold day;
when the sun rises, they take off,
and no one knows where they are.
Verse ConceptsGrasshoppersHot WeatherCold WeatherUnknown ThingsEvil Fleeing

Now I will tell you
what I am about to do to My vineyard:
I will remove its hedge,
and it will be consumed;
I will tear down its wall,
and it will be trampled.
Verse ConceptsWallsFigurative Fields

The one who digs a pit may fall into it,
and the one who breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.
Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedDigging Pits

A slacker’s way is like a thorny hedge,
but the path of the upright is a highway.
Verse ConceptsHighwayIdlenessSluggardsThornsTroubleProcrastinationHard TasksWorking Hard And Not Being Lazysloth

Therefore, this is what I will do:
I will block her way with thorns;
I will enclose her with a wall,
so that she cannot find her paths.
Verse ConceptsMan's WaysThornsPaths Of The WickedNot FindingHard TasksWeedPathsroadblocks

He broke up the soil, cleared it of stones,
and planted it with the finest vines.
He built a tower in the middle of it
and even dug out a winepress there.
He expected it to yield good grapes,
but it yielded worthless grapes.
Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsFortsExcavationWineskins And Vats

Then the Angel of the Lord stood in a narrow passage between the vineyards, with a stone wall on either side. Verse ConceptsVineyardNarrow Things

How long will you threaten a man?
Will all of you attack
as if he were a leaning wall
or a tottering stone fence?
Verse ConceptsEvil PlansWalls

I went by the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking sense. Thistles had come up everywhere, weeds covered the ground, and the stone wall was ruined.

A day will come for rebuilding your walls;
on that day your boundary will be extended.
Verse ConceptsBuildingSpreadingRebuilding JerusalemWork Ethicbordersconstructionrebuilding

I searched for a man among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land so that I might not destroy it, but I found no one. Verse ConceptsPrayerlessnessWallsGapsFigurative WallsNo One AvailableMasculinitybridges

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