Hosea 2:6

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Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

Why is life given to a man whose path is hidden,
whom God has hedged in?

He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass through;
He has veiled my paths with darkness.

ג GimelHe has walled me in so I cannot escape;
He has weighed me down with chains.

After he had spent everything, a severe famine struck that country, and he had nothing.

For the days will come on you when your enemies will build an embankment against you, surround you, and hem you in on every side.