Hosea 2:6

Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.

World English Bible British

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 played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’

7She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, for then it was better with me than now.’

Read all of Hosea 2

Cross References

Job 19:8He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

Lamentations 3:7He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.

Luke 19:43For the days will come on you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Hosea 2:6