Thematic Bible: Hedges
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Hedges » Placed around » Gardens
A locked garden is My sister, My spouse; a rock heap locked up, a fountain sealed.
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And He violated His booth like a garden, and destroyed His meeting places. Jehovah caused the meeting places and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and He despised the king and the priest in the fury of His anger.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of heavy judgments
He has set a fence around me and I cannot go out; He has made my bronze chain heavy.
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Therefore behold, I will hedge your way with thorns, and wall up her 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 who should wall up a wall for the land, and stand in the break before me, that I should not destroy it. But I did not find one.
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You have not gone up into the breaks, nor built the wall for the house of Israel, that it might 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 certain housemaster who planted a vineyard and hedged it round about, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and rented it to vinedressers, and went into a far country.
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And He fenced it, and gathered out the stones of it, and planted it with choice vines, and built a tower in its midst, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and He looked for it to produce grapes. And it produced wild grapes.
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Hedges » Placed around » Vineyards
Hear another parable. There was a certain housemaster who planted a vineyard and hedged it round about, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and rented it to vinedressers, and went into a far country.
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And He began to speak to them by parables. A man planted a vineyard, and set a fence about it, and dug a wine-vat, and built a tower, and he let it out to vinedressers, and went away.
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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 broken down its hedges, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of numerous afflictions
To a man whose way is hidden, God has made a hedge about him.
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He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.
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Hedges » Danger of breaking through
He who digs a pit shall fall into it; and whoever breaks a hedge, a snake shall bite him.
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Hedges » Antiquity of
These were the potters and those who lived among plants and hedges. They lived there with the king for his work.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of the way of the slothful
The way of the lazy one is like a hedge of thorns, but the way of the righteous is made plain.
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Hedges » Difficulty of breaking through
The way of the lazy one is like a hedge of thorns, but the way of the righteous is made plain.
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Hedges » Desolation caused by removing
Why have You broken down its hedges, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it? The boar out of the wood wastes it, and the wild beast of the field eats it.
Hedges » Afforded protection in danger
Wail, O Heshbon; Ai is spoiled! Cry, daughters of Rabbah; clothe yourselves with sackcloth, mourn, and run to and fro by the hedges! For their king shall go into exile; his priests and his rulers together.
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Hedges » Poor travellers sought rest under
And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, so that my house may be filled.
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Hedges » Filled with grasshoppers
Your rulers are like the locusts, and your officials are a swarm of locusts that camp in the hedges in the cold day; the sun rises, and they flee, and the place where they are is not known.
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Hedges » Designed for protection
And He fenced it, and gathered out the stones of it, and planted it with choice vines, and built a tower in its midst, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and He looked for it to produce grapes. And it produced wild grapes.
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Hedges » Often made of thorns
The best of them is like a briar; the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns. The day of your watchmen and your punishment comes; now their shame shall come.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of God's protection
Have You not made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.
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Serpents » Infest » Hedges
He who digs a pit shall fall into it; and whoever breaks a hedge, a snake shall bite him.
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