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Hosea 2:6
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.
Hosea 2:6 · Bible in Basic English
Hosea 2:6 in other translations
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 her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.
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.
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In context
3 For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.
4 And I will have no mercy on her children, for they are the children of her loose ways.
5 For their mother has been untrue; she who gave them birth has done things of shame, for she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my wine.
6 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.
7 And if she goes after her lovers she will not overtake them; if she makes search for them she will not see them; then will she say, I will go back to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.
8 For she had no knowledge that it was I who gave her the grain and the wine and the oil, increasing her silver and gold which they gave to the Baal.
9 So I will take away again my grain in its time and my wine, and I will take away my wool and my linen with which her body might have been covered.
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