Hedge

“Have You not placed a hedge on every side around him and his household and all that he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.”

“Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.”

“Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.”

“He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.”

“You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall around the house of Israel so that it would stand in the battle on the Day of the LORD.”

“I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no one.”

“Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.”

“The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns. The day for your watchmen has come, the day of your visitation. Now is the time of their confusion.”