Hosea 2:6

Therefore I will build up a hedge to block her way with thorns. 1 I will build up a wall against her 1 so she cannot find her way. 1

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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 been a prostitute, 1 and she who conceived them has acted shamefully. 1 She said, “I will go after my lovers, 1 for they give me my bread and water, 1 my wool and flax, 1 my oil and drink.” 1

7She will pursue her lovers, 1 but she will not overtake them. 1 She will seek them, 1 but she will not find them. 1 Then she will say, 1 “I will return to my first husband, 1 for it was better for me then than it is now.” 1

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Cross References

Job 19:8He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, 1 and he has set darkness in my path. 1

Lamentations 3:7He built a wall around me and I cannot escape. He made my chains heavy 1

Luke 19:43For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build a barricade around you, and surround you, and press in on you 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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