Hosea 2:6

And I will not have mercy upon her banim; 1 for they are the bnei zenunim. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

5Lest I strip her naked, 1 and set her as bare as the day she was born, 1 and make her as a midbar, 1 and turn her like an eretz tziyyah (parched land), 1 and kill her with tzamah (thirst). 1

7For their em hath played the zonah (prostitute); 1 she that conceived them hath done shamefully; 1 for she said: I will go after my lovers, 1 that give me my lechem and my mayim, 1 my wool and my flax, mine shemen (oil) and my shikkui (drink). 1

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Cross References

Job 19:8He hath fenced around my way that I cannot pass, 1 and set choshech in my paths. 1

Lamentations 3:7He hath hedged me about, that I cannot escape; 1 He hath made my chain heavy. 1

Luke 19:43Because yamim (days) will come upon you when your oyevim (enemies) will construct a siege against you and they will surround you and will hem you in from all directions. + 19:43 Isa 29:3; Jer 6:6; Ezek 4:2; 28:6

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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