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 has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were a garden: he has destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD has caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of heavy judgments
He has hedged me in, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy.
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Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, so 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 build up the wall, and stand in the gap 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, neither built up the wall for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of holy ordinances, &c
Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, who planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into a far country:
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And he dug it, and gathered out its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress in it: and he expected that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
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Hedges » Placed around » Vineyards
Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, who planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into a far country:
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And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and dug a place for the winepress, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into a far 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 take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; and break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down:
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Why have you then broken down its hedges, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck its fruit?
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of numerous afflictions
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in?
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He has fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.
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Hedges » Danger of breaking through
He that digs a pit shall fall into it; and whosoever breaks through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.
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Hedges » Antiquity of
These were the potters, and those that dwelt at Netaim and Gederah: 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 slothful man is as a hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made a highway.
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Hedges » Difficulty of breaking through
The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made a highway.
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Hedges » Desolation caused by removing
Why have you then broken down its hedges, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck its fruit? The boar out of the wood does waste it, and the wild beast of the field does devour it.
Hedges » Afforded protection in danger
Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is plundered: cry, you daughters of Rabbah, gird yourselves with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro inside the walls; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
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Hedges » Poor travellers sought rest under
And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
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Hedges » Filled with grasshoppers
Your princes are like the locusts, and your officials like the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges on the cold day, but when the sun arises 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 its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress in it: and he expected that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
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Hedges » Often made of thorns
The best of them is like a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of your watchmen and your punishment comes; now shall be their perplexity.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of God's protection
Have not you made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he has on every side? you have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions are increased in the land.
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Serpents » Infest » Hedges
He that digs a pit shall fall into it; and whosoever breaks through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.
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