Thematic Bible: Hedges
Thematic Bible
Hedges » Placed around » Gardens
“A garden enclosed is my sister, my [promised] bride—
A rock garden locked, a spring sealed up.
And He has violently broken down His temple like a [fragile] garden hedge;
He has destroyed His appointed meeting place.
The Lord has caused the appointed feast and Sabbath
To be forgotten in Zion
And has despised and rejected the king and the priest
In the indignation of His anger.
Hedges » Illustrative » Of heavy judgments
He walled me in so that I cannot get out;
He has weighted down my chain.
“Therefore, behold, I [the Lord God] will hedge up her way with thorns;
And I will build a wall against her [shutting off her way] so that she cannot find her paths.
Hedges » Making up gaps in, alluded to
I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before Me for [the sake of] the land, that I would not destroy it, but I found no one [not even one].
Verse Concepts
You have not gone up into the gaps or breaches, nor built the wall around the house of Israel that it might stand in the battle on the day of the Lord.
Verse Concepts
Hedges » Illustrative » Of holy ordinances, &c
He dug it all around and cleared away its stones,
And planted it with
And He built a tower in the center of it;
And also hewed out a
Then He expected it to produce [the choicest] grapes,
But it produced only worthless ones.
Hedges » Placed around » Vineyards
Jesus began to speak to them [the chief priests, scribes and elders who were questioning Him] in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a wall around it, and dug a pit for the wine press and built a tower; and he rented it out to tenant farmers and left the country.
Verse Concepts
Hedges » Illustrative » (broken down,) of the taking away of protection
“So now let me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard:
I will take away its thorn-hedge, and it will be burned up;
I will break down its
Why have You broken down its
So that all who pass by pick its fruit?
Hedges » Illustrative » Of numerous afflictions
“Why is the light of day given to a man whose way is hidden,
And whom God has hedged in?
“He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has set darkness upon my paths.
Hedges » Danger of breaking through
He who digs a pit [for others] may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a [stone] wall.
Verse Concepts
Hedges » Antiquity of
These were the potters and those who lived [among plantations and hedges] at Netaim and Gederah; they lived there with the king for his work.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of the way of the slothful
The way of the lazy is like a hedge of thorns [it pricks, lacerates, and entangles him],
But the way [of life] of the upright is smooth and open like a highway.
Hedges » Difficulty of breaking through
The way of the lazy is like a hedge of thorns [it pricks, lacerates, and entangles him],
But the way [of life] of the upright is smooth and open like a highway.
Hedges » Desolation caused by removing
Why have You broken down its hedges and walls so that all who pass by pluck from its fruit? The boar out of the wood wastes it and the wild beast of the field feeds on it.
Hedges » Afforded protection in danger
“Wail, O
Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah!
Wrap yourselves with sackcloth and lament (cry out in grief),
And rush back and forth inside the enclosures;
For Malcam [your powerless god] will go into exile
Together with his priests and his princes.
Hedges » Poor travellers sought rest under
Hedges » Filled with grasshoppers
Your guardsmen are like the swarming locusts.
Your marshals are like the hordes of grasshoppers
Settling in the stone walls on a cold day.
When the sun rises, they fly away,
And no one knows the place where they are.
Hedges » Designed for protection
He dug it all around and cleared away its stones,
And planted it with
And He built a tower in the center of it;
And also hewed out a
Then He expected it to produce [the choicest] grapes,
But it produced only worthless ones.
Hedges » Often made of thorns
The best of them is [injurious] like a briar;
The most upright is [prickly] like a thorn hedge.
The day of your watchmen [that is, the time predicted by the prophets]
And your punishment comes;
Now shall be their confusion.
Hedges » Illustrative » Of God's protection
Have You not put a hedge [of protection] around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands [and conferred prosperity and happiness upon him], and his possessions have increased in the land.
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Serpents » Infest » Hedges
He who digs a pit [for others] may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a [stone] wall.
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