Hosea 2:6

Israel's Adultery Rebuked

⁵ Yes, their mother is promiscuous;
she conceived them and acted shamefully.
For she thought, “I will go after my lovers,
the men who give me my food and water,
my wool and flax, my oil and drink.”
⁶ 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.
⁷ She will pursue her lovers but not catch them;
she will seek them but not find them.
Then she will think,
“I will go back to my former husband,
for then it was better for me than now.”

For This Cause

I Am He

Job 19:8

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

Job 3:23

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

Lamentations 3:7-9

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

Luke 15:14-16

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

Luke 19:43

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.