Hosea 2:6

That is why I am going to block her path with thorn bushes, and build a stone wall to stop her so she won't find her way.

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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 was a prostitute who conceived them in a shameful way. She said, ‘I'll run after my lovers who give me my food and water, my wool and flax and olive oil, and my drink.’

7When she runs after her lovers she won't catch up with them; she'll look for them but she won't find them. Then she'll say, ‘Let me go back to my former husband, because it was better for me then than now.’

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Cross References

Job 19:8God has walled me in so I can't escape; he has plunged my path into darkness.

Lamentations 3:7He has built a wall around me so I can't escape; he has bound me with heavy chains.

Luke 19:43The time is coming upon you when your enemies will besiege you, building ramps to attack you, encircling you and closing you in from 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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