Hosea 2:6 BSB — MannaFest

Hosea 2:6

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.

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ASV

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.

KJV

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

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Commentary

4 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

I will hedge up thy way with thorns - I will put it out of your power to escape the judgments I have threatened; and, in spite of all your attachment to your idols, you shall find that they can give you neither bread, nor water, nor wool, nor flax, nor oil, nor drink. And ye shall be brought into such circumstances, that the pursuit of your expensive idolatry shall be impossible. And she shall be led so deep into captivity, as never to find the road back to her own land.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Hedge up - I will compass thee in with wars, and calamities, that tho' thou love thy sinful courses, thou shalt have little pleasure in them. Make a wall - Yea, I will make the calamities of this people as a strong wall, which they cannot break.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Now, (1.) This is such a just judgment as the Sodomites met with, that were struck with blindness, and wearied themselves to find the door ( Gen. xix. 11 ), and the Syrians, 2 Kings vi. Note, Those that are most resolute in their sinful pursuits are commonly most crossed in them.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The way of duty is hedged about with thorns; it is the way of sin that is hedged up with thorns. Crosses in an evil course are God's hedges to turn us from it. Restraining grace and restraining providences (even sicknesses and trials) are great blessings when they stop us in a course of sin.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לָכֵ֛ן	la.Khen	<to> therefore	H3651 →
הִנְנִי־	hi.ni-	here I	H2005 →
שָׂ֥ךְ	sakh	[am] about to fence up	H7753 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
דַּרְכֵּ֖ךְ	dar.Kekh	way your	H1870 →
בַּסִּירִ֑ים	ba.si.Rim	with <the> thorns	H5518 →
וְגָֽדַרְתִּי֙	ve.ga.dar.Ti	and I will wall up	H1443 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
גְּדֵרָ֔הּ	ge.de.Rah	wall her	H1447 →
וּנְתִיבוֹתֶ֖יהָ	u.ne.ti.vo.Tei.ha	and paths her	H5410 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
תִמְצָֽא׃	tim.Tza'	she will find	H4672 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Job 19:8
He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
leads to
- Lamentations 3:7
  He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Job 3:23
  Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
- Psalms 88:8
  You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
- Proverbs 4:19
  But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
- Lamentations 3:9
  He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
Through
Luke 19:43
For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side.
leads to
- Luke 21:20–24
  But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near.
- Isaiah 29:1–4
  Woe to you, O Ariel, the city of Ariel where David camped! Year upon year let your festivals recur.
Through
Job 3:23
Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
leads to
- Job 19:8
  He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Hosea

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Hosea