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I will block her path with a wall to make her lose her way.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/hosea/2.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/hosea/2.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/hosea/2.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/hosea/2.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />“Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, And wall her in, So that she cannot find her paths.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/hosea/2.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“Therefore, behold, I will obstruct her way with thorns, And I will build a stone wall against her so that she cannot find her paths.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/hosea/2.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns, And I will build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/hosea/2.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns, And I will build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/hosea/2.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns, And I will build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/hosea/2.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“Therefore, behold, I [the LORD God] will hedge up her way with thorns; And I will build a wall against her [shutting off her way] so that she cannot find her paths.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/hosea/2.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Therefore, this is what I will do: I will block her way with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so that she cannot find her paths.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/hosea/2.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Therefore, this is what I will do: I will block her way with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so that she cannot find her paths. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/hosea/2.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/hosea/2.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />I, the LORD, will build a fence of thorns to block her path. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/hosea/2.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will make a fence against her, that she shall not find her paths.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/hosea/2.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />"That is why I will block her way with thornbushes and build a wall so that she can't get through.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/hosea/2.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />So I am going to fence her in with thorn bushes and build a wall to block her way. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/hosea/2.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"Look how I'm blocking her path with thorns and building a wall to hinder her, so she can't find her way.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/hosea/2.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/hosea/2.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Therefore, I will soon fence her in with thorns; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/hosea/2.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Therefore, look, I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can't find her way.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/hosea/2.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/hosea/2.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />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. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/hosea/2.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/hosea/2.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/hosea/2.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Therefore, behold me hedging in thy way with thorns, and I walled a wall and she shall not find her beaten paths.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/hosea/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />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. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/hosea/2.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/hosea/2.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Therefore, I will hedge in her way with thorns and erect a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/hosea/2.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns; and I will build a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/hosea/2.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns, and fence her paths so that she shall not find her paths.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/hosea/2.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Because of these things, behold, I fence in her ways with thistles and I shall hedge in her paths and she will not find the road<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/hosea/2.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/hosea/2.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Therefore, behold, I hedge up her way with thorns, and I will stop the ways, and she shall not find her path.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/2-6.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xpPG1oLnpGk?start=194" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/hosea/2.htm">Israel's Adultery Rebuked</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">5</span>For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’ <span class="reftext">6</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3651.htm" title="3651: lā·ḵên (Adv) -- So, thus. From kuwn; properly, set upright; hence just; but usually rightly or so.">Therefore,</a> <a href="/hebrew/2005.htm" title="2005: hin·nî- (Interjection:: 1cs) -- Lo! behold! A primitive particle; lo!; also if.">behold,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7753.htm" title="7753: śāḵ (V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- To hedge or fence up or about. A primitive root; to entwine, i.e. Shut in.">I will hedge up</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self.">her</a> <a href="/hebrew/1870.htm" title="1870: dar·kêḵ (N-csc:: 2fs) -- Way, road, distance, journey, manner. From darak; a road; figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb.">path</a> <a href="/hebrew/5518.htm" title="5518: bas·sî·rîm (Prep-b, Art:: N-fp) -- Or ciyrah; or cirah; from a primitive root meaning to boil up; a pot; also a thorn; by implication, a hook.">with thorns;</a> <a href="/hebrew/1443.htm" title="1443: wə·ḡā·ḏar·tî (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-1cs) -- To wall up or off, to build a wall. A primitive root; to wall in or around.">I will enclose her with a wall,</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1447.htm" title="1447: gə·ḏê·rāh (N-msc:: 3fs) -- A wall. From gadar; a circumvallation; by implication, an inclosure."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">so she cannot</a> <a href="/hebrew/4672.htm" title="4672: ṯim·ṣā (V-Qal-Imperf-3fs) -- To attain to, find. ">find</a> <a href="/hebrew/5410.htm" title="5410: ū·nə·ṯî·ḇō·w·ṯe·hā (Conj-w:: N-fpc:: 3fs) -- Path, pathway. Or nthiybah; or nthibah; from an unused root meaning to tramp; a track.">her way.</a> </span><span class="reftext">7</span>She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.’…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/5-5.htm">Isaiah 5:5</a></span><br />Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/19-8.htm">Job 19:8</a></span><br />He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/lamentations/3-7.htm">Lamentations 3:7-9</a></span><br />He 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/22-5.htm">Proverbs 22:5</a></span><br />Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/7-4.htm">Micah 7:4</a></span><br />The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns. The day for your watchmen has come, the day of your visitation. Now is the time of their confusion.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/57-14.htm">Isaiah 57:14</a></span><br />And it will be said, “Build it up, build it up, prepare the way, take every obstacle out of the way of My people.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/18-15.htm">Jeremiah 18:15</a></span><br />Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/13-22.htm">Ezekiel 13:22</a></span><br />Because you have disheartened the righteous with your lies, even though I have caused them no grief, and because you have encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways to save their lives,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/3-5.htm">Amos 3:5</a></span><br />Does a bird land in a snare where no bait has been set? Does a trap spring from the ground when it has nothing to catch?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/30-21.htm">Isaiah 30:21</a></span><br />And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/7-13.htm">Matthew 7:13-14</a></span><br />Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. / But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/13-24.htm">Luke 13:24</a></span><br />“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/11-7.htm">Romans 11:7-10</a></span><br />What then? What Israel was seeking, it failed to obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened, / as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear, to this very day.” / And David says: “May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution to them. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_corinthians/4-4.htm">2 Corinthians 4:4</a></span><br />The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/galatians/5-7.htm">Galatians 5:7</a></span><br />You were running so well. Who has obstructed you from obeying the truth?</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.</p><p class="hdg">I will.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/job/3-23.htm">Job 3:23</a></b></br> <i>Why is light given</i> to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/job/19-8.htm">Job 19:8</a></b></br> He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/lamentations/3-7.htm">Lamentations 3:7-9</a></b></br> He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy… </p><p class="hdg">make a wall.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezekiel/44-12.htm">Block</a> <a href="/daniel/11-15.htm">Build</a> <a href="/ezekiel/46-23.htm">Building</a> <a href="/hosea/2-2.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-30.htm">Fence</a> <a href="/daniel/6-5.htm">Find</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-30.htm">Hedge</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-11.htm">Path</a> <a href="/daniel/4-37.htm">Paths</a> <a href="/ezekiel/47-15.htm">Road</a> <a href="/daniel/10-5.htm">Round</a> <a href="/isaiah/33-12.htm">Thornbushes</a> <a href="/ezekiel/28-24.htm">Thorns</a> <a href="/daniel/9-25.htm">Wall</a> <a href="/hosea/1-6.htm">Way</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/matthew/16-23.htm">Block</a> <a href="/amos/9-11.htm">Build</a> <a href="/amos/9-11.htm">Building</a> <a href="/hosea/2-11.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/matthew/21-33.htm">Fence</a> <a href="/hosea/2-7.htm">Find</a> <a href="/micah/7-4.htm">Hedge</a> <a href="/hosea/13-7.htm">Path</a> <a href="/hosea/9-8.htm">Paths</a> <a href="/hosea/13-7.htm">Road</a> <a href="/hosea/7-2.htm">Round</a> <a href="/matthew/7-16.htm">Thornbushes</a> <a href="/hosea/9-6.htm">Thorns</a> <a href="/joel/2-7.htm">Wall</a> <a href="/hosea/4-18.htm">Way</a><div class="vheading2">Hosea 2</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/2-1.htm">The idolatry of the people.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/2-6.htm">God's judgments against them.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">14. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/2-14.htm">His promises of reconciliation with them.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/hosea/2.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/hosea/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/hosea/2.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns;</b><br>This phrase indicates God's intention to obstruct Israel's wayward pursuits. The imagery of "hedging up" suggests a protective barrier, but here it is used as a form of discipline. Thorns are often symbolic of pain and difficulty, reflecting the consequences of Israel's unfaithfulness. In biblical context, thorns are associated with the curse of sin (<a href="/genesis/3-18.htm">Genesis 3:18</a>) and represent obstacles that prevent progress. This action is a divine intervention to prevent Israel from continuing in idolatry and sin, similar to how God disciplines those He loves (<a href="/hebrews/12-6.htm">Hebrews 12:6</a>).<p><b>I will enclose her with a wall,</b><br>The wall signifies a more permanent and insurmountable barrier compared to the thorns. In ancient times, walls were used for protection and separation. Here, it symbolizes God's determination to isolate Israel from her sinful paths. This enclosure is not for destruction but for correction, aiming to bring Israel back to a covenant relationship with God. The imagery of a wall can also be seen in the New Testament, where Christ is described as the cornerstone, breaking down the dividing wall of hostility (<a href="/ephesians/2-14.htm">Ephesians 2:14</a>).<p><b>so she cannot find her way.</b><br>This phrase highlights the result of God's intervention: Israel's inability to pursue her own misguided desires. The inability to "find her way" suggests a loss of direction and purpose, a common consequence of turning away from God. This reflects the spiritual blindness that comes from sin (<a href="/isaiah/59-10.htm">Isaiah 59:10</a>). The purpose of this divine obstruction is to lead Israel to repentance and restoration, echoing the parable of the lost sheep where the shepherd seeks to bring the lost back to safety (<a href="/luke/15-4.htm">Luke 15:4-7</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/h/hosea.htm">Hosea</a></b><br>A prophet in the Northern Kingdom of Israel, called by God to deliver messages of judgment and redemption.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/g/gomer.htm">Gomer</a></b><br>Hosea's wife, whose unfaithfulness symbolizes Israel's spiritual adultery.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a></b><br>The Northern Kingdom, often depicted as unfaithful to God, pursuing idolatry and alliances with foreign nations.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God</a></b><br>The sovereign Lord who uses Hosea's life as a prophetic symbol of His relationship with Israel.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/t/thorns_and_wall.htm">Thorns and Wall</a></b><br>Metaphorical barriers representing God's intervention to prevent Israel from pursuing idolatry and sin.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/d/divine_intervention_as_mercy.htm">Divine Intervention as Mercy</a></b><br>God's hedging is an act of mercy, not just judgment. He intervenes to prevent further spiritual harm.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_purpose_of_barriers.htm">The Purpose of Barriers</a></b><br>Spiritual barriers are meant to redirect us towards God, not merely to punish or frustrate us.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/recognizing_god's_discipline.htm">Recognizing God's Discipline</a></b><br>Understanding that God's discipline is a sign of His love and desire for our repentance and restoration.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/repentance_and_return.htm">Repentance and Return</a></b><br>The ultimate goal of God's intervention is to lead us to repentance and a restored relationship with Him.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/trusting_god's_sovereignty.htm">Trusting God's Sovereignty</a></b><br>Trust that God's ways, even when they seem restrictive, are for our ultimate good and His glory.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_hosea_2.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Hosea 2</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_defines_a_hedge_of_protection.htm">What defines a hedge of protection?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_did_god_abandon_them.htm">Why did God abandon them?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_is_hosea_6_2's_revival_literal.htm">In Hosea 6:2, how can the 'two days' and 'third day' revival be taken literally if no historical or scientific evidence supports such a resurrection-like event?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/does_god_destroying_his_vineyard_contradict_love.htm">Isaiah 5:1-7: Does God's destruction of His own vineyard contradict the idea of a loving and merciful deity?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/hosea/2.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(6-7) Contains a brief introductory prelude, summarizing the general contents of <a href="/context/hosea/2-8.htm" title="For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.">Hosea 2:8-23</a>. Jehovah addresses the adulterous wife: "I will erect impassable barriers that shall pierce and mangle her flesh. The path of evil shall be a path of thorns."<p><span class= "bld">Hedge up . . . and make a wall.--</span>In accordance with most Hebrew texts, the literal rendering is, <span class= "ital">wall up her wall.</span> Here, again, we have a sudden change of person.<p><span class= "bld">She shall</span> . . .--She may anticipate in her exile closer proximity to her idol-lovers, but in respect of national prosperity or religious satisfaction she will make complete mistake.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/hosea/2.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 6.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths</span>. The sudden change of person from the third to the second is very observable. This directness of address is, in this instance, expressive of deep indignation. She had avowed her determination to pursue her evil courses shamefully and sinfully, as if in despite and defiance of the Almighty. In deep and undisguised displeasure, and with a suddenness springing from indignation, he affirms his determination to thwart her course of sin and shame; as though addressing her personally and promptly, he said, "Then thou shalt not be able to carry out thy plan or accomplish thy purpose; I will see to that." The hedge and wall are elsewhere, as in <a href="/job/1-10.htm">Job 1:10</a> and <a href="/isaiah/5-5.htm">Isaiah 5:5</a>, used for protection and defense, here for prevention and obstruction, and similarly in <a href="/job/19-8.htm">Job 19:8</a>, "He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths;" and in <a href="/lamentations/3-7.htm">Lamentations 3:7</a>, "He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out," and ver. 9, "<span class="accented">He</span> hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked." Thus Kimchi: "<span class="accented">I</span> will hedge thy way with thorns, so that they cannot go out of the city because of the devastation; and her lovers shall not be able to help her, and they are Assyria and Egypt." After quoting his father's explanation of lovers, he pro-coeds: "So their way is as if there were in it a thorn hedge, and thorns that she could not pass through it, and could not find her paths in which she walked." The fence here is double one a hedge of thorns, sharp, prickly, and piercing, such as forbid her forcing a way through: the other a wall of stone that cannot be climbed, or leaped, or otherwise got over. We need not try to specify the particular circumstances that thus hedged in and walled about the adulteress - whether fightings within or foes beleaguering without, whether straitened means or stress of circumstances raising an impassable barrier against the practice of idolatry, or an enforced conviction of its futility. "<span class="accented">If</span>," says Kimchi, "<span class="accented">she</span> seek to <span class="accented">Assyria</span> and Egypt, they will not give her their friendship and their help." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/hosea/2-6.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Therefore,</span><br /><span class="heb">לָכֵ֛ן</span> <span class="translit">(lā·ḵên)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3651.htm">Strong's 3651: </a> </span><span class="str2">So -- thus</span><br /><br /><span class="word">behold,</span><br /><span class="heb">הִנְנִי־</span> <span class="translit">(hin·nî-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Interjection | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2005.htm">Strong's 2005: </a> </span><span class="str2">Lo! behold!</span><br /><br /><span class="word">I will hedge up</span><br /><span class="heb">שָׂ֥ךְ</span> <span class="translit">(śāḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7753.htm">Strong's 7753: </a> </span><span class="str2">To hedge or fence up or about</span><br /><br /><span class="word">her path</span><br /><span class="heb">דַּרְכֵּ֖ךְ</span> <span class="translit">(dar·kêḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - common singular construct | second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1870.htm">Strong's 1870: </a> </span><span class="str2">A road, a course of life, mode of action</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with thorns;</span><br /><span class="heb">בַּסִּירִ֑ים</span> <span class="translit">(bas·sî·rîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5518.htm">Strong's 5518: </a> </span><span class="str2">A pot, a thorn, a hook</span><br /><br /><span class="word">I will enclose her with a wall,</span><br /><span class="heb">וְגָֽדַרְתִּי֙</span> <span class="translit">(wə·ḡā·ḏar·tî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1443.htm">Strong's 1443: </a> </span><span class="str2">To wall up or off, to build a wall</span><br /><br /><span class="word">so she cannot</span><br /><span class="heb">לֹ֥א</span> <span class="translit">(lō)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><br /><span class="word">find</span><br /><span class="heb">תִמְצָֽא׃</span> <span class="translit">(ṯim·ṣā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4672.htm">Strong's 4672: </a> </span><span class="str2">To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present</span><br /><br /><span class="word">her way.</span><br /><span class="heb">וּנְתִיבוֹתֶ֖יהָ</span> <span class="translit">(ū·nə·ṯî·ḇō·w·ṯe·hā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5410.htm">Strong's 5410: </a> </span><span class="str2">Path, pathway</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/hosea/2-6.htm">Hosea 2:6 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/hosea/2-6.htm">Hosea 2:6 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/hosea/2-6.htm">Hosea 2:6 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/hosea/2-6.htm">Hosea 2:6 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/hosea/2-6.htm">Hosea 2:6 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/hosea/2-6.htm">Hosea 2:6 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/hosea/2-6.htm">Hosea 2:6 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/hosea/2-6.htm">Hosea 2:6 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/hosea/2-6.htm">Hosea 2:6 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/hosea/2-6.htm">Hosea 2:6 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/hosea/2-6.htm">OT Prophets: Hosea 2:6 Therefore behold I will hedge up your (Ho Hs Hos.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/hosea/2-5.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Hosea 2:5"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Hosea 2:5" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/hosea/2-7.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Hosea 2:7"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Hosea 2:7" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>