Hosea 2:6

New Living Translation

“For this reason I will fence her in with thornbushes. I will block her path with a wall to make her lose her way.

Cross References

Job 19:8

God has blocked my way so I cannot move. He has plunged my path into darkness.

Job 3:23

Why is life given to those with no future, those God has surrounded with difficulties?

Isaiah 57:3

“But you—come here, you witches’ children, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!

Jeremiah 18:15

But my people are not so reliable, for they have deserted me; they burn incense to worthless idols. They have stumbled off the ancient highways and walk in muddy paths.

Hosea 10:8

And the pagan shrines of Aven, the place of Israel’s sin, will crumble. Thorns and thistles will grow up around their altars. They will beg the mountains, “Bury us!” and plead with the hills, “Fall on us!”

Hosea 9:6

Even if you escape destruction from Assyria, Egypt will conquer you, and Memphis will bury you. Nettles will take over your treasures of silver; thistles will invade your ruined homes.

Luke 19:43

Before long your enemies will build ramparts against your walls and encircle you and close in on you from every side.

2 Corinthians 12:7

even though I have received such wonderful revelations from God. So to keep me from becoming proud, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger from Satan to torment me and keep me from becoming proud.