Hosea 2:6

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

¶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.make…: Heb. wall a wall

WEB

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 “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

ASV

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.

LSV

Therefore, behold, I am hedging up your way with thorns, || And I have made a wall for her, || And her paths she does not find.

YLT

Therefore, lo, I am hedging up thy way with thorns, And I have made for her a wall, And her paths she doth not find.

DBY

Therefore behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns; and I will fence [her] in with a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

DRC

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.

GNV

Therefore beholde, I will stoope thy way with thornes, and make an hedge, that shee shall not finde her pathes.

JPS2:8

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will make a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.

LXXE2:8

Therefore, behold, I hedge up her way with thorns, and will stop the ways, and she shall not find her path.

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WLC2:8

לָכֵ֛ן הִנְנִי־שָׂ֥ךְ אֶת־דַּרְכֵּ֖ךְ בַּסִּירִ֑ים וְגָֽדַרְתִּי֙ אֶת־גְּדֵרָ֔הּ וּנְתִיבוֹתֶ֖יהָ לֹ֥א תִמְצָֽא׃KJV:Hos.2.6

LXX-Br2:8

Διὰ τοῦτο ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ φράσσω τὴν ὁδὸν αὐτῆς ἐν σκόλοψι, καὶ ἀνοικοδομήσω τὰς ὁδοὺς, καὶ τὴν τρίβον αὐτῆς οὐ μὴ εὕρῃ·

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• Job 19:8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
• Lamentations 3:7–9He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains. Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer. He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
• Job 3:23Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
• 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.
• Luke 15:14–16After he had spent all he had, a severe famine swept through that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs. He…

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