Hosea 2:6

Israel's Adultery Rebuked

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“For their mother has played the prostitute;
She who conceived them has acted shamefully,
For she said, ‘I will pursue my lovers
Who give me my food and my water,
My wool and my flax, my oil and my [refreshing] drinks.’
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“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.
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“She will [passionately] pursue her lovers, but she will not overtake them;
And she will seek them, but will not find them.
Then she will say, ‘Let me go and return to my first husband,
For it was better for me then than now!’

For This Cause

I Am He

Job 19:8

“He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has set darkness upon my paths.

Job 3:23

“Why is the light of day given to a man whose way is hidden,
And whom God has hedged in?

Lamentations 3:7-9

He walled me in so that I cannot get out;
He has weighted down my chain.

Luke 15:14-16

Now when he had spent everything, a severe famine occurred in that country, and he began to do without and be in need.

Luke 19:43

For a time [of siege] is coming when your enemies will put up a barricade [with pointed stakes] against you, and surround you [with armies] and hem you in on every side,