Hosea 2:6

Israel's Adultery Rebuked

⁵ “For their mother has played the harlot;
She who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
Who give me my bread and my water,
My wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
⁶ “Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns,
And I will build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths.
⁷ “She will pursue her lovers, but she will not overtake them;
And she will seek them, but will not find them.
Then she will say, ‘I will go back to my first husband,
For it was better for me then than now!’

For This Cause

I Am He

Job 19:8

“He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has put darkness on my paths.

Job 3:23

“Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,
And whom God has hedged in?

Lamentations 3:7-9

He has walled me in so that I cannot go out;
He has made my chain heavy.

Luke 15:14-16

Now when he had spent everything, a severe famine occurred in that country, and he began to be impoverished.

Luke 19:43

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side,