Hosea 2:8

Therefore, hinei, I will hedge up thy path with thorns, 1 and wall in her wall, 1 that she shall not find her netivah (way). 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.

In Context

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

9And she shall chase after her lovers, 1 but she shall not overtake them; 1 and she shall seek them, but shall not find them; 1 then shall she say: 1 I will go and return to my ish harishon (first husband); 1 for then was it better with me than now. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 32:2And Aharon said unto them, Take off the rings of zahav in the ears of your nashim, of your banim, and of your banot, and bring them unto me.

Judges 17:1And there was an ish from har Ephrayim, whose shem was Mikhay'hu.

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

Isaiah 24:7The tirosh (new wine) faileth, the gefen languisheth, 1 all the simchei-lev (merryhearted) do sigh. 1

Jeremiah 7:18The banim gather wood, and the avot kindle the eish, and the nashim knead their batzek (dough), to make cakes to the Malkat HaShomayim (Queen of Heaven), and to pour out nesakhim (drink offerings) unto elohim acherim, that they may provoke Me to anger.

Ezekiel 16:16And of thy begadim thou didst take, and adorned thy bamot te'lu'ot (gaudy high places, cult prostitution brilliantly colored harlot “beds”), and playedst the zonah thereupon; such things should not come, neither should they be.

Matthew Henry on Hosea 2:7-14

Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 764.) 6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. 7 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now. 8 For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal. 9 Therefore… Read the whole commentary →

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