Thematic Bible: Hedges
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Hedges » Placed around » Gardens
A garden locked is my sister, my bride, a spring locked, a fountain sealed.
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He has laid waste his booth like a garden, laid in ruins his meeting place; the LORD has made Zion forget festival and Sabbath, and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of heavy judgments
He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has made my chains heavy;
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Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths.
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Hedges » Making up gaps in, alluded to
And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.
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You have not gone up into the breaches, or built up a wall for the house of Israel, that it might stand in battle in the day of the LORD.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of holy ordinances, &c
"Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country.
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He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
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Hedges » Placed around » Vineyards
"Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country.
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And he began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country.
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Hedges » Illustrative » (broken down,) of the taking away of protection
And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.
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Why then have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of numerous afflictions
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
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He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
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Hedges » Danger of breaking through
He who digs a pit will fall into it, and a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall.
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Hedges » Antiquity of
These were the potters who were inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah. They lived there in the king's service.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of the way of the slothful
The way of a sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.
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Hedges » Difficulty of breaking through
The way of a sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.
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Hedges » Desolation caused by removing
Why then have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit? The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it.
Hedges » Afforded protection in danger
"Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste! Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth, lament, and run to and fro among the hedges! For Milcom shall go into exile, with his priests and his officials.
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Hedges » Poor travellers sought rest under
And the master said to the servant, 'Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled.
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Hedges » Filled with grasshoppers
Your princes are like grasshoppers, your scribes like clouds of locusts settling on the fences in a day of cold-- when the sun rises, they fly away; no one knows where they are.
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Hedges » Designed for protection
He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
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Hedges » Often made of thorns
The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, of your punishment, has come; now their confusion is at hand.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of God's protection
Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
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Serpents » Infest » Hedges
He who digs a pit will fall into it, and a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall.
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