Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
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.
New American Standard Bible
And I will build
King James Version
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
Holman Bible
I will block her
I will enclose her with a wall,
so that she cannot find her paths.
International Standard Version
"Look how I'm blocking her path with thorns and building a wall to hinder her, so she can't find her way.
A Conservative Version
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.
Amplified
“Therefore, behold, I [the Lord God] will hedge up her way with thorns;
And I will build a wall against her [shutting off her way] so that she cannot find her paths.
Bible in Basic English
For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.
Darby Translation
Therefore behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns; and I will fence her in with a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
Julia Smith Translation
Therefore, behold me hedging in thy way with thorns, and I walled a wall and she shall not find her beaten paths.
King James 2000
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, so that she shall not find her paths.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Therefore, Look! I [am] going to hedge her path {with thorns}, and I will build a stone wall, a stone wall [against] her, and she will not find her paths.
Modern King James verseion
Therefore behold, I will hedge your way with thorns, and wall up her wall, that she shall not find her paths.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"But I will hedge her way with thorns, and stop it, that she shall not find her footsteps:
NET Bible
Therefore, I will soon fence her in with thorns; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.
New Heart English Bible
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can't find her way.
The Emphasized Bible
Therefore, behold me! hedging up her way, with thorns, - and I will wall her in, and, her footpaths, shall she not find.
Webster
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
World English Bible
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can't find her way.
Youngs Literal Translation
Therefore, lo, I am hedging up thy way with thorns, And I have made for her a wall, And her paths she doth not find.
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 2:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Adultery Rebuked
5 for their mother hath played the harlot; she that conceived them hath done shamefully; for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink. 6 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. 7 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.
Cross References
Job 19:8
He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.
Job 3:23
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?
Lamentations 3:7-9
He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.
Luke 15:14-16
And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that country; and he began to be in want.
Luke 19:43
For the days shall come upon thee, when thine enemies shall cast up a bank about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,