Thematic Bible: Hedges


Thematic Bible



A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he has destroyed his place of assembly: Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, Has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.


He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy.

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can't find her way.


I sought for a man among them, who 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.

You have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of Yahweh.


"Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in its midst, and also cut out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.


"Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

He began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.


Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.

Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?


Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.


He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.


These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: there they lived with the king for his work.


The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.


The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.


Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it? The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.


Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, you daughters of Rabbah, clothe yourself in sackcloth: lament, and run back and forth among the fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.


"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.


Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.


He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in its midst, and also cut out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.


The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion.


Haven't you 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 substance is increased in the land.


He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.