Thematic Bible: Hedges
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Hedges » Placed around » Gardens
Thou art a well kept garden, O my sister, my spouse, thou are a well kept watering spring, and a sealed well.
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{Vav} Her tabernacle - which was like a garden of pleasure - hath he destroyed; her high solemn feasts hath he put down. The LORD hath brought it so to pass, that the high solemn feasts and Sabbaths in Zion are clean forgotten. In his heavy displeasure hath he made the king and priests to be despised.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of heavy judgments
{Gimel} He hath so hedged me in, that I cannot get out; and hath laid heavy links upon me.
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"But I will hedge her way with thorns, and stop it, that she shall not find her footsteps:
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Hedges » Making up gaps in, alluded to
And I sought in the land for a man, that would make up the hedge, and set himself in the gap before me in the lands behalf, that I should not utterly destroy it: but I could find none.
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For they stand not in the gaps, neither made they a hedge for the house of Israel, that men might abide the peril in the day of the LORD.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of holy ordinances, &c
"Hearken another similitude. There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and made a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a strange country:
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This he hedged, this he walled round about, and planted it with goodly grapes. In the midst of it builded he a tower, and made a wine press therein. And afterward when he looked that it should bring him grapes, it brought forth thorns.
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Hedges » Placed around » Vineyards
"Hearken another similitude. There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and made a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a strange country:
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And he began to speak unto them in similitudes. "A certain man planted a vineyard, and compassed it with a hedge, and ordained a winepress, and built a tower in it, and let it out to hire unto husbandmen, and went into a strange country.
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Hedges » Illustrative » (broken down,) of the taking away of protection
Well, now I shall tell you how I will do with my vineyard: I will take the hedge from it, that it may perish, and break down the wall, that it may be trodden under foot.
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Why hast thou then broken down her hedge, that all they which go by, pluck off her grapes?
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of numerous afflictions
That should be joy to the man whose way is hid, which God keepeth back from him.
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"He hath hedged up my way, that I cannot pass; he hath set darkness in my gate.
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Hedges » Danger of breaking through
But he that diggeth up a pit, shall fall therein himself; and whoso breaketh down the hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
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Hedges » Antiquity of
These were potters and dwelt among trees and hedges and were in the king's work and dwelt even there.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of the way of the slothful
The way of the slothful is full of thorns; but the street of the righteous is well cleansed.
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Hedges » Difficulty of breaking through
The way of the slothful is full of thorns; but the street of the righteous is well cleansed.
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Hedges » Desolation caused by removing
Why hast thou then broken down her hedge, that all they which go by, pluck off her grapes? The wild boar out of the wood hath rooted it up, and the beasts of the field have devoured it.
Hedges » Afforded protection in danger
Heshbon shall mourn, for it shall be rooted out of the ground, sayeth the LORD. The cities of Rabbah shall cry out, and gird themselves with sackcloth. They shall mourn, and run about the walls; for their king shall be led away prisoner: yea his priests and princes with him.
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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, that my house may be filled.
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Hedges » Filled with grasshoppers
Thy lords are as the grasshoppers, and thy captains as the multitude of grasshoppers: which when they be cold, remain in the hedges: but when the Sun is up, they flee away, and no man can tell where they are become.
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Hedges » Designed for protection
This he hedged, this he walled round about, and planted it with goodly grapes. In the midst of it builded he a tower, and made a wine press therein. And afterward when he looked that it should bring him grapes, it brought forth thorns.
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Hedges » Often made of thorns
The best of them is but as a thistle, and the most righteous of them is but as a brier in the hedge. But when the day of thy preachers cometh, that thou shalt be visited: then shall they be wasted away.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of God's protection
Hast thou not preserved him, his house, and all his substance on every side? Hast thou not blessed the work of his hands? Is not his possession increased in the land?
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Serpents » Infest » Hedges
But he that diggeth up a pit, shall fall therein himself; and whoso breaketh down the hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
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