Thematic Bible: Hedges


Thematic Bible



A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped.

And he has violently taken away his tent, as from a garden; he has made waste his meeting-place: the Lord has taken away the memory of feast and Sabbath in Zion, and in the passion of his wrath he is against king and priest.


He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.

For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.


And I was looking for a man among them who would make up the wall and take his station in the broken place before me for the land, so that I might not send destruction on it: but there was no one.

You have not gone up into the broken places or made up the wall for the children of Israel to take your place in the fight in the day of the Lord.


Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.


Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

And he gave them teaching in the form of stories. A man had a vine-garden planted, and put a wall about it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and put up a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.


And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;

Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit?


To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?

My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.


He who makes a hole for others will himself go into it, and for him who makes a hole through a wall the bite of a snake will be a punishment.


These were the potters, and the people living among planted fields with walls round them; they were there to do the king's work.


Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.


Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.


Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit? It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it.


Make sounds of grief, O Heshbon, for Ai is wasted; give loud cries, O daughters of Rabbah, and put haircloth round you: give yourselves to weeping, running here and there and wounding yourselves; for Milcom will be taken prisoner together with his rulers and his priests.


And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the roads and the fields, and make them come in, so that my house may be full.


Your crowned ones are like the locusts, and your scribes like the clouds of insects which take cover in the walls on a cold day, but when the sun comes up they go in flight, and are seen no longer in their place.


And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.


The best of them is like a waste plant, and their upright ones are like a wall of thorns. Sorrow! the day of their fate has come; now will trouble come on them.


Have you yourself not put a wall round him and his house and all he has on every side, blessing the work of his hands, and increasing his cattle in the land?


He who makes a hole for others will himself go into it, and for him who makes a hole through a wall the bite of a snake will be a punishment.


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain