Hosea 2:6

Therefore, behold, I am hedging up your way with thorns, || And I have made a wall for her, || And her paths she does not find.

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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 gone whoring, || Their conceiver has acted shamefully, || For she has said, I go after my lovers, || Those giving my bread and my water, || My wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

7And she has pursued her lovers, || And she does not overtake them, || And has sought them, and does not find [them], || And she has said: I go, and I return to my first husband, || For—better to me then than now.

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Cross References

Job 19:8He hedged up my way, and I do not pass over, || And He places darkness on my paths.

Lamentations 3:7He has hedged me in, and I do not go out, || He has made heavy my chain.

Luke 19:43Because days will come on you, and your enemies will cast a rampart around you, and surround you around, and press you 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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