Thematic Bible: Hedges
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Hedges » Placed around » Gardens
A garden locked [is] my sister bride, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.
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He has broken down {his dwelling} place like the garden; he has ruined his appointed feasts; Yahweh has made [them] forget in Zion {festival} and Sabbath, and he has despised in his anger king and priest.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of heavy judgments
He has built a wall around me, I cannot go out; he has made my bronze fetters heavy.
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Therefore, Look! I [am] going to hedge her path {with thorns}, and I will build a stone wall, a stone wall [against] her, and she will not find her paths.
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Hedges » Making up gaps in, alluded to
And [so] I sought for them somebody, one repairing [the] wall and standing in the breach {before me} on behalf of the land not to destroy it, but I did not find [anyone],
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You did not go up into the breaches and repair a wall for the house of Israel to stand [firm] in the battle on the day of Yahweh.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of holy ordinances, &c
"Listen to another parable: There was a man--a master of a house--who planted a vineyard, and put a fence [around] it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey.
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And he dug it and cleared it of stones, and he planted it [with] choice vines, and he built a watchtower in the middle of it, and he even hewed out a wine vat in it, and he waited for [it] to yield grapes-- but it yielded wild grapes.
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Hedges » Placed around » Vineyards
"Listen to another parable: There was a man--a master of a house--who planted a vineyard, and put a fence [around] it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey.
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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 trough for the winepress, and built a watchtower, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey.
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Hedges » Illustrative » (broken down,) of the taking away of protection
And now let me tell you what I myself am about to do to my vineyard. [I will] remove its hedge, and it shall become a devastation. [I will] break down its wall, and it shall become a trampling.
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Why have you broken down its walls, so that all [who] pass on [the] road pluck [fruit from] it?
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of numerous afflictions
[Why does he give light] to a man whose way is hidden, and God has fenced him in [all] around?
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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
Whoever digs a pit will fall into it. Whoever breaks through a wall, a snake will bite him.
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Hedges » Antiquity of
These [were] the potters and inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah. They lived there with the king in his service.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of the way of the slothful
The way of the lazy is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright [is] a highway.
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Hedges » Difficulty of breaking through
The way of the lazy is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright [is] a highway.
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Hedges » Desolation caused by removing
Why have you broken down its walls, so that all [who] pass on [the] road pluck [fruit from] it? Swine from the forests devour it and creatures of [the] field feed on it.
Hedges » Afforded protection in danger
"Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is devastated. Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah, put on sackcloth. Lament and run back and forth among the walls. For Milcom will go into exile, his priests and his officials together.
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Hedges » Poor travellers sought rest under
And the master said to the slave, 'Go out into the highways and hedges and press [them] to come in, so that my house will be filled!
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Hedges » Filled with grasshoppers
Your officials [are] like locusts; your commanders [are] like a swarm of locusts. They encamp on the walls on a cold day; when the sun rises, they fly away-- no one knows where they have gone.
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Hedges » Designed for protection
And he dug it and cleared it of stones, and he planted it [with] choice vines, and he built a watchtower in the middle of it, and he even hewed out a wine vat in it, and he waited 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 [worse] than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchman, your punishment, has come; now their confusion will come.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of God's protection
Have you not put a fence around him and his household and around {all that belongs to him} {on every side}? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock has increased in the land.
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Serpents » Infest » Hedges
Whoever digs a pit will fall into it. Whoever breaks through a wall, a snake will bite him.
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