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Hosea 2:6
Hosea 2:6 is verse 6 of Hosea chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.
Hebrew your path
King James Version
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
World English Bible
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.
“Behold”, from “\+wh הִנֵּה\+wh*”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.
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Hosea 2:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible
4 I will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery.
5 For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’
6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.
7 She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.’
8 For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold— which they crafted for Baal.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 3:23Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
Job 19:8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
Lamentations 3:7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
Lamentations 3:8Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
Lamentations 3:9He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
Luke 15:14After he had spent all he had, a severe famine swept through that country, and he began to be in need.
Luke 15:15So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.
Luke 15:16He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.
Luke 19:43For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side.