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."
— Hosea 2:6, World English Bible
“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. ”
“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 make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.
Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness;
For 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.'
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.
She 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 was it better with me than now.'
For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.