16 Bible Verses about Figurative Walls

Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears stream down like a torrent day and night! Give yourself no rest, your eyes no respite!

And I will be to her a wall of fire all around, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory in her midst.'"

Violence shall no more be heard in your land, devastation or destruction within your borders; you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.

In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city; he sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks.

And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.

"Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the wall.

For by you I can run against a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall.

For by you I can run against a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall.

And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

Are you better than Thebes that sat by the Nile, with water around her, her rampart a sea, and water her wall?

They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

And I, behold, I make you this day a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.

And I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you, but they shall not prevail over you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you, declares the LORD.

Then Paul said to him, "God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Are you sitting to judge me according to the law, and yet contrary to the law you order me to be struck?"

A rich man's wealth is his strong city, and like a high wall in his imagination.