Thematic Bible: Hedge


Thematic Bible



"Listen to another parable: There was a man--a master of a house--who planted a vineyard, and put a fence [around] it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey.

Your officials [are] like locusts; your commanders [are] like a swarm of locusts. They encamp on the walls on a cold day; when the sun rises, they fly away-- no one knows where they have gone.

And now let me tell you what I myself am about to do to my vineyard. [I will] remove its hedge, and it shall become a devastation. [I will] break down its wall, and it shall become a trampling.

Whoever digs a pit will fall into it. Whoever breaks through a wall, a snake will bite him.

The way of the lazy is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright [is] a highway.

Therefore, Look! I [am] going to hedge her path {with thorns}, and I will build a stone wall, a stone wall [against] her, and she will not find her paths.


And the master said to the slave, 'Go out into the highways and hedges and press [them] to come in, so that my house will be filled!


The way of the lazy is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright [is] a highway.