Hosea 2:6

Good News Translation

So I am going to fence her in with thorn bushes and build a wall to block her way.

Cross References

Job 19:8

God has blocked the way, and I can't get through; he has hidden my path in darkness.

Job 3:23

God keeps their future hidden and hems them in on every side.

Isaiah 57:3

Come here to be judged, you sinners! You are no better than sorcerers, adulterers, and prostitutes.

Jeremiah 18:15

Yet my people have forgotten me; they burn incense to idols. They have stumbled in the way they should go; they no longer follow the old ways; they walk on unmarked paths.

Hosea 10:8

The hilltop shrines of Aven, where the people of Israel worship idols, will be destroyed. Thorns and weeds will grow up over their altars. The people will call out to the mountains, “Hide us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”

Hosea 9:6

When the disaster comes and the people are scattered, the Egyptians will gather them up—gather them for burial there at Memphis! Their treasures of silver and the places where their homes once stood will be overgrown with weeds and thorn bushes.

Luke 19:43

The time will come when your enemies will surround you with barricades, blockade you, and close in on you from every side.

2 Corinthians 12:7

But to keep me from being puffed up with pride because of the many wonderful things I saw, I was given a painful physical ailment, which acts as Satan's messenger to beat me and keep me from being proud.