Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Therefore, I will soon fence her in with thorns; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.
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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"But I will hedge her way with thorns, and stop it, that she shall not find her footsteps:
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 For their mother has committed adultery; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, "I will seek out my lovers; they are the ones who give me my bread and my water, my wool, my flax, my olive oil, and my wine. 6 Therefore, I will soon fence her in with thorns; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way. 7 Then she will pursue her lovers, but she will not catch them; she will seek them, but she will not find them. Then she will say, "I will go back to my husband, because I was better off then than I am now."
Cross References
Job 19:8
He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.
Job 3:23
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?
Lamentations 3:7-9
(Gimel) He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.
Luke 15:14-16
Then after he had spent everything, a severe famine took place in that country, and he began to be in need.
Luke 19:43
For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.