He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
Hosea 2:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns; and I will build a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore, behold, I [the Lord God] will hedge up her way [even yours, O Israel] with thorns; and I will build a wall against her that she shall not find her paths. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible Therefore, I will line her path with thorns; and I will build a wall against her, so that she can’t find her paths. Catholic Public Domain Version Because of this, behold, I will fence in your way with thorns, and I will surround it with a wall, and she will not find her paths. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wherefore behold I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will stop it up with a wall, and she shall not find her paths. |
He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
But you, draw near hither, sons of the sorceress, offspring of the adulterer and the harlot.
But my people have forgotten me, they burn incense to false gods; they have stumbled in their ways, in the ancient roads, and have gone into bypaths, not the highway,
The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. Thorn and thistle shall grow up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us, and to the hills, Fall upon us.
For behold, they are going to Assyria; Egypt shall gather them, Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver; thorns shall be in their tents.
For the days shall come upon you, when your enemies will cast up a bank about you and surround you, and hem you in on every side,
And to keep me from being too elated by the abundance of revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too elated.