Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 been unchaste, and she that conceived them, hath caused shame, - for she said, Let me go after my lovers! who used to give my bread, and my water, my wool, and my flax, mine oil, and my drink. 6 Therefore, behold me! hedging up her way, with thorns, - and I will wall her in, and, her footpaths, shall she not find. 7 And, when she shall pursue her lovers, and not overtake them, and shall seek them and not find, then will she say, Let me go my way now! and return unto my first husband, for it was better with me, then, than, now!
Cross References
Job 19:8
My way, hath he walled up, that I cannot pass, and, upon my paths, hath he made darkness rest;
Job 3:23
To a man, whose way is concealed, And GOD hath straitly enclosed him?
Lamentations 3:7-9
He hath walled up around me, that I cannot get out, hath weighted my fetter;
Luke 15:14-16
And, when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine throughout that country, - and, he, began to be in want.
Luke 19:43
Because days will have come upon thee, that thine enemies will throw around a rampart against thee, and enclose thee; and hem thee in from every side, -