Thematic Bible: Hedges
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Hedges » Placed around » Gardens
A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
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And he hath violently cast down his enclosure as a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly: Jehovah hath caused set feast and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger king and priest.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of heavy judgments
He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
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Therefore behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns; and I will fence her in with a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
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Hedges » Making up gaps in, alluded to
And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the fence, and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.
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Ye have not gone up into the breaches, nor made up the fence for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of Jehovah.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of holy ordinances, &c
Hear another parable: There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.
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And he dug it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine; and he built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes.
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Hedges » Placed around » Vineyards
Hear another parable: There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.
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And he began to say to them in parables, A man planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it and dug a wine-vat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.
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Hedges » Illustrative » (broken down,) of the taking away of protection
And now, let me tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trodden under foot;
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Why hast thou broken down its fences, so that all who pass by the way do pluck it?
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of numerous afflictions
To the man whose way is hidden, and whom +God hath hedged in?
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He hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
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Hedges » Danger of breaking through
He that diggeth a pit falleth into it; and whoso breaketh down a hedge, a serpent biteth him.
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Hedges » Antiquity of
These were the potters, and those that abode among plantations and enclosures: there they dwelt with the king for his work.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of the way of the slothful
The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns; but the path of the upright is made plain.
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Hedges » Difficulty of breaking through
The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns; but the path of the upright is made plain.
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Hedges » Desolation caused by removing
Why hast thou broken down its fences, so that all who pass by the way do pluck it? The boar out of the forest doth waste it, and the beast of the field doth feed off it.
Hedges » Afforded protection in danger
Howl, Heshbon! for Ai is laid waste; cry, daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth, lament and run to and fro within the enclosures: for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.
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Hedges » Poor travellers sought rest under
And the lord said to the bondman, Go out into the ways and fences and compel to come in, that my house may be filled;
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Hedges » Filled with grasshoppers
Thy chosen men are as the locusts, and thy captains as swarms of grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day: when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
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Hedges » Designed for protection
And he dug it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine; and he built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes.
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Hedges » Often made of thorns
The best of them is as a briar; the most upright, worse than a thorn-fence. The day of thy watchmen, thy visitation is come; now shall be their perplexity.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of God's protection
Hast not thou made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is spread abroad in the land.
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Serpents » Infest » Hedges
He that diggeth a pit falleth into it; and whoso breaketh down a hedge, a serpent biteth him.
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