Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"But I will hedge her way with thorns, and stop it, that she shall not find her footsteps:
New American Standard Bible
And I will build
King James Version
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
Holman Bible
I will block her
I will enclose her with a wall,
so that she cannot find her paths.
International Standard Version
"Look how I'm blocking her path with thorns and building a wall to hinder her, so she can't find her way.
A Conservative 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.
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.
Amplified
“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.
Bible in Basic English
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.
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.
Julia Smith Translation
Therefore, behold me hedging in thy way with thorns, and I walled a wall and she shall not find her beaten paths.
King James 2000
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, so that she shall not find her paths.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Therefore, Look! I [am] going to hedge her path {with thorns}, and I will build a stone wall, a stone wall [against] her, and she will not find her paths.
Modern King James verseion
Therefore behold, I will hedge your way with thorns, and wall up her wall, that she shall not find her paths.
NET Bible
Therefore, I will soon fence her in with thorns; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.
New Heart 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.
The Emphasized Bible
Therefore, behold me! hedging up her way, with thorns, - and I will wall her in, and, her footpaths, shall she not find.
Webster
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
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.
Youngs 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.
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 2:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Adultery Rebuked
5 Their mother hath broken her wedlock, and she that bare them, is come to confusion. For she said, 'I will go after my lovers, that give me my water and my bread, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.' 6 "But I will hedge her way with thorns, and stop it, that she shall not find her footsteps: 7 and though she run after her lovers, yet shall she not get them: she shall seek them, but not find them. Then shall she say, 'Well, I will go turn again to my first husband, for at that time was I better at ease, than now.'
Cross References
Job 19:8
"He hath hedged up my way, that I cannot pass; he hath set darkness in my gate.
Job 3:23
That should be joy to the man whose way is hid, which God keepeth back from him.
Lamentations 3:7-9
{Gimel} He hath so hedged me in, that I cannot get out; and hath laid heavy links upon me.
Luke 15:14-16
And when he had spent all that he had, there rose a great dearth throughout all that same land. And he began to lack.
Luke 19:43
For the days shall come upon thee; that thy enemies shall cast a bank about thee, and compass thee round and keep thee in on every side;