Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Fence » Hedge
"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:
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.
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.
But he that diggeth up a pit, shall fall therein himself; and whoso breaketh down the hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
The way of the slothful is full of thorns; but the street of the righteous is well cleansed.
"But I will hedge her way with thorns, and stop it, that she shall not find her footsteps:
Hedges » Illustrative » Of heavy judgments
{Gimel} He hath so hedged me in, that I cannot get out; and hath laid heavy links upon me.
"But I will hedge her way with thorns, and stop it, that she shall not find her footsteps:
Thorn » Used » Hedges formed of
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.
"But I will hedge her way with thorns, and stop it, that she shall not find her footsteps: