Catholic Public Domain Version
"Because of this, behold, I will fence in your way with thorns, and I will surround it with a wall, and she will not find her paths. "
— Hosea 2:6, Catholic Public Domain 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 thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, 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.”
Otherwise, I may expose her nakedness and set her as on the day of her birth, and I may establish her as a wilderness and set her as an impassable land, and I may execute her with thirst.
And I will not have mercy on her sons, for they are the sons of fornications.
For their mother has been fornicating; she who conceived them has been brought to ruin. 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.’
Because of this, behold, I will fence in your way with thorns, and I will surround it with a wall, and she will not find her paths.
And she will pursue her lovers, but she will not obtain them, and she will seek them, but she will not find them, and she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, because it was to some extent better for me then, than it is now.’
And she did not know that I gave her grain and wine and oil, and that I increased her silver and gold, which they made into Baal.
For this reason, I will turn back, and I will take away my grain in its time and my wine in its time, and I will set free my wool and my flax, which had covered her disgrace.