Thematic Bible: Fence
Thematic Bible
Fence » Hedge
Hear another parable. There was a certain housemaster who planted a vineyard and hedged it round about, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and rented it to vinedressers, and went into a far country.
Your rulers are like the locusts, and your officials are a swarm of locusts that camp in the hedges in the cold day; the sun rises, and they flee, and the place where they are is not known.
And now I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard; I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; and break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down;
He who digs a pit shall fall into it; and whoever breaks a hedge, a snake shall bite him.
The way of the lazy one is like a hedge of thorns, but the way of the righteous is made plain.
Therefore behold, I will hedge your way with thorns, and wall up her wall, that she shall not find her paths.
Fence » Made of stone walls
And He fenced it, and gathered out the stones of it, and planted it with choice vines, and built a tower in its midst, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and He looked for it to produce grapes. And it produced wild grapes.
But the Angel of Jehovah stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall on this side, and a wall on that side.
How long will you imagine mischief against a man? You will shatter him, all of you; you shall be like a bowing wall and a tottering fence.
I went by the field of the lazy man, and by the vineyard of the man without understanding; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face of it, and its stone wall was broken down.
In the day that your walls are to be built, in that day the decree shall be far removed.
Fence » Figurative
And I sought for a man among them who should wall up a wall for the land, and stand in the break before me, that I should not destroy it. But I did not find one.