American Standard Version
"Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths. "
— Hosea 2:6, American Standard Version
“Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.”
“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.”
“The Lord’s Discipline Will Bring Israel Back Therefore, I will soon fence her in with thorns; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.”
“Wherefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will stop it up with a wall, and she shall not find her paths.”
“For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.”
“Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.”
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.
Yea, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they are children of whoredom;
for their mother hath played the harlot; she that conceived them hath done shamefully; for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.
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.
For she did not know that I gave her the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied unto her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
Therefore will I take back my grain in the time thereof, and my new wine in the season thereof, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.