Thematic Bible: Fence


Thematic Bible



'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. Verse ConceptsJourneyOccupationsTowersVineyardWallsFortsExcavationTreading GrapesLeasinglent

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. Verse ConceptsGrasshoppersHot WeatherCold WeatherUnknown ThingsEvil Fleeing

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. Verse ConceptsWallsFigurative Fields

Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And whoso is breaking a hedge, a serpent biteth him. Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedDigging Pits

The way of the slothful is as a hedge of briers, And the path of the upright is raised up. Verse ConceptsHighwayIdlenessSluggardsThornsTroubleProcrastinationHard TasksWorking Hard And Not Being Lazysloth

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. Verse ConceptsMan's WaysThornsPaths Of The WickedNot FindingHard TasksWeedPathsroadblocks

And he fenceth it, and casteth out its stones, And planteth it with a choice vine, And buildeth a tower in its midst, And also a wine press hath hewn out in it, And he waiteth for the yielding of grapes, And it yieldeth bad ones! Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsFortsExcavationWineskins And Vats

And the messenger of Jehovah standeth in a narrow path of the vineyards -- a wall on this side and a wall on that -- Verse ConceptsVineyardNarrow Things

Till when do ye devise mischief against a man? Ye are destroyed all of you, As a wall inclined, a hedge that is cast down. Verse ConceptsEvil PlansWalls

Near the field of a slothful man I passed by, And near the vineyard of a man lacking heart. And lo, it hath gone up -- all of it -- thorns! Covered its face have nettles, And its stone wall hath been broken down.

The day to build thy walls! That day -- removed is the limit. Verse ConceptsBuildingSpreadingRebuilding JerusalemWork Ethicbordersconstructionrebuilding

And I seek of them a man making a fence, And standing in the breach before Me, In behalf of the land -- not to destroy it, And I have not found. Verse ConceptsPrayerlessnessWallsGapsFigurative WallsNo One AvailableMasculinitybridges