He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass through; he has veiled my paths with darkness.
Hosea 2:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Therefore, this is what I will do: I will block her way with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so that she cannot find her paths. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 blocked my way so that I cannot pass through; he has veiled my paths with darkness.
Why is life given to a man whose path is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
But come here, you witch’s sons, offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute!
Yet my people have forgotten me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways on the ancient roads, and make them walk on new paths, not the raised road.
The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed; thorns and thistles will grow over their altars. They will say to the mountains, ‘Cover us! ’ and to the hills, ‘Fall on us! ’
For even if they flee from devastation, Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them. Thistles will take possession of their precious silver; thorns will invade their tents.
For the days will come on you when your enemies will build a barricade round you, surround you, and hem you in on every side.
especially because of the extraordinary revelations. Therefore, so that I would not exalt myself, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to torment me so that I would not exalt myself.