Hosea 2:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Job 19:8 : 8 He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.
  • Job 3:23 : 23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?
  • Lam 3:7-9 : 7 He has hedged me in so I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy. 8 Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer. 9 He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.
  • Luke 15:14-16 : 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. 15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs. 16 And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the pigs ate: and no one gave him anything.
  • Luke 19:43 : 43 For the days shall come upon you, when your enemies will build an embankment around you and surround you and enclose you on every side,

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  • Hos 2:7-10
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    84%

    7 And she shall pursue her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then she shall say, I will go and return to my first husband; for it was better with me then than now.

    8 For she did not know that I gave her grain, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.

    9 Therefore I will return, and take away my grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.

    10 And now I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall rescue her out of my hand.

  • Hos 2:2-5
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    79%

    2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

    3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

    4 And I will not have mercy on her children; for they are the children of whoredoms.

    5 For their mother has played the harlot: she who conceived them has acted shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

  • Hos 2:12-15
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    12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the animals of the field shall eat them.

    13 And I will punish her for the days of the Baals, when she burned incense to them, and she adorned herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me, says the LORD.

    14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

    15 And I will give her vineyards from there, and the Valley of Achor as a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came out of the land of Egypt.

  • Ps 80:12
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    12 Why have you then broken down its hedges, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?

  • Jer 2:20
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    20 For from of old I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree you wandered, playing the harlot.

  • Jer 3:7-9
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    7 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn to me. But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

    8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.

    9 And it came to pass through the frivolity of her whoredom, that she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

  • Jer 2:25
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    25 Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst: but you said, There is no hope: no; for I have loved foreign gods, and after them I will go.

  • Ezek 16:31-32
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    31 In that you build your eminent place at the head of every way, and make your high place in every street; and have not been as a harlot, that scorns payment;

    32 But as a wife that commits adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

  • Jer 4:17-18
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    17 As keepers of a field, they are against her all around; because she has been rebellious against me, says the LORD.

    18 Your way and your deeds have procured these things for you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches to your heart.

  • Prov 2:17-18
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    17 Who forsakes the guide of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

    18 For her house leads down to death, and her paths to the dead.

  • Ezek 16:37-38
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    37 Behold, therefore I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those that you have loved, with all those that you have hated; I will even gather them round about against you, and will uncover your nakedness unto them, that they may see all your nakedness.

    38 And I will judge you, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give you blood in fury and jealousy.

  • Jer 2:33
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    33 Why do you beautify your way to seek love? therefore you have also taught the wicked ones your ways.

  • Ezek 23:30
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    30 I will do these things to you, because you have gone a whoring after the heathen, and because you are polluted with their idols.

  • Jer 6:21
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    21 Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.

  • Prov 5:6
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    6 Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are unstable, so that you cannot know them.

  • Isa 5:5-6
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    5 And now, I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down:

    6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor dug; but briers and thorns shall come up: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

  • Ezek 16:35
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    35 Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD;

  • Jer 11:15
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    15 What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has worked lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice.

  • Jer 31:21-22
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    72%

    21 Set up waymarks, make high heaps: set your heart toward the highway, the way you came: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.

    22 How long will you wander about, O backsliding daughter? for the LORD has created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall encompass a man.

  • Lam 3:9
    72%

    9 He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.

  • Jer 3:1-3
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    1 They say, If a man divorces his wife, and she leaves him and becomes another man's wife, shall he return to her again? Would not that land be greatly defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, says the LORD.

    2 Lift up your eyes to the high places and see where you have not been violated. On the roads you have sat for them, like an Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your whoredoms and your wickedness.

    3 Therefore, the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and you had a harlot's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.

  • Mic 1:7
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    7 And all her carved images will be beaten to pieces, and all her wages will be burned with fire, and all her idols I will lay desolate: for she gathered it from the wages of a harlot, and they shall return to the hire of a harlot.

  • Jer 3:20
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    20 Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says the LORD.

  • Prov 7:25
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    25 Let not your heart incline to her ways, do not stray in her paths.

  • Ezek 16:43
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    43 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have grieved me in all these things; behold, therefore I will recompense your way upon your head, says the Lord GOD; and you shall not commit this lewdness above all your abominations.

  • Ezek 23:22
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    22 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your mind is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side;

  • Jer 13:26
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    26 Therefore I will expose your skirts upon your face, that your shame may appear.

  • 2 Kgs 19:28
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    28 Because your rage against me and your tumult have come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.

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    5 For I, says the LORD, will be a wall of fire around her, and will be the glory in her midst.

  • Ezek 16:41
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    41 And they shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women; and I will cause you to cease from playing the harlot, and you also shall give no remuneration any more.

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    10 The adversary has spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she has seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom you commanded that they should not enter into your congregation.