Hosea 2:6
“Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.”
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.
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.
Cross-References
“He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.”
“He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.”
“Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.”
“I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,”
“He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.”