Hosea 2:6

Because of this, behold, I will fence in your way with thorns, and I will surround it with a wall, and she will not find her paths.

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In The King James Version

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

In Context

5For their mother has been fornicating; she who conceived them has been brought to ruin. For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’

7And she will pursue her lovers, but she will not obtain them, and she will seek them, but she will not find them, and she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, because it was to some extent better for me then, than it is now.’

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Cross References

Job 19:8He has hemmed in my path, and I cannot pass; he has added darkness to my difficult path.

Lamentations 3:7GHIMEL. He has built against me all around, so that I may not depart. He has increased the burden of my confinement.

Luke 19:43For the days will overtake you. And your enemies will encircle you with a valley. And they will surround you and hem you in on every side.

Matthew Henry on Hosea 2:2-6

The Sinfulness of Israel. ( b. c. 764.) 1 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah. 2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; 3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. 4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children… Read the whole commentary →

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