Thematic Bible: Hedge


Thematic Bible



“Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard and put a wall around it and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.

Your guardsmen are like the swarming locust.
Your marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers
Settling in the stone walls on a cold day.
The sun rises and they flee,
And the place where they are is not known.

“So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard:
I will remove its hedge and it will be consumed;
I will break down its wall and it will become trampled ground.

He who digs a pit may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a wall.

The way of the lazy is as a hedge of thorns,
But the path of the upright is a highway.

“Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns,
And I will build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths.


And the master said to the slave, ‘Go out into the highways and along the hedges, and compel them to come in, so that my house may be filled.


The way of the lazy is as a hedge of thorns,
But the path of the upright is a highway.