Thematic Bible: Hedge


Thematic Bible



"Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a wall around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went abroad. Verse ConceptsJourneyOccupationsTowersVineyardWallsFortsExcavationTreading GrapesLeasinglent

Your imperial guards are like the swarming grasshopper; your marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers, settling in the stone walls on a chilly day. The sun rises, and they flee away; no one knows where they went. Verse ConceptsGrasshoppersHot WeatherCold WeatherUnknown ThingsEvil Fleeing

"Now, let me tell you, won't you please, what I'm going to do to my vineyard. "I'm going to take away its protective hedge, and it will be devoured; I'll break down its wall, and it will be trampled. Verse ConceptsWallsFigurative Fields

Whoever digs a pit may fall into it, and whoever breaks through a wall may suffer a snake bite. Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedDigging Pits

The lifestyle of the lazy is like a thorny hedge, but the path taken by the upright is an open highway. Verse ConceptsHighwayIdlenessSluggardsThornsTroubleProcrastinationHard TasksWorking Hard And Not Being Lazysloth

"Look how I'm blocking her path with thorns and building a wall to hinder her, so she can't find her way. Verse ConceptsMan's WaysThornsPaths Of The WickedNot FindingHard TasksWeedPathsroadblocks

Then the master told the servant, "Go out into the streets and the lanes and make the people come in, so that my house may be full. Verse ConceptsFullness Of The KingdomUsing RoadsOutward CompulsionAmbassadors For ChristHighways

The lifestyle of the lazy is like a thorny hedge, but the path taken by the upright is an open highway. Verse ConceptsHighwayIdlenessSluggardsThornsTroubleProcrastinationHard TasksWorking Hard And Not Being Lazysloth

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