Hosea 2:6
World English Bible (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.
In context
4 Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy, for they are children of unfaithfulness.
5 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.’
6 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.
7 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 it was better with me than now.’
8 For she didn’t 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.
Hosea 2:6 in every translation
- WEB 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.
- KJV King James Version
- Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
- BSB 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.
- ASV 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.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- 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 Darby Translation
- 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.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.