Hosea 2:6

And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are children of fornication.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

5that I may strip her naked, and make her again as she was at the day of her birth: and I will make her desolate, and make her as a dry land, and will kill her with thirst.

7And their mother went a-whoring: she that bore them disgraced them: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, and my garments, and my linen clothes, my oil and all my necessaries.

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Cross References

Job 19:8I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: 1 He has set darkness before my face. 1

Lamentations 3:7He has built against me, and I cannot come forth: 1 He has made my brazen chain heavy. 1

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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