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Hosea 2:6

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The Lord’s Discipline Will Bring Israel Back

2:6Therefore, I will soon15 fence her in16 with thorns;

I will wall her in17 so that18 she cannot find her way.19

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Footnotes

  1. 15 The deictic particle הִנְנִי (hinni, “Behold!”) introduces a future-time reference participle that refers to imminent future action: “I am about to” ( “I am going to”).
  2. 16 Heb “I will hedge up her way”; “block her path.”
  3. 17 Heb “I will wall in her wall.” The cognate accusative construction וְגָדַרְתִּי אֶת־גְּדֵרָהּ (végadarti ’et-géderah, “I will wall in her wall”) is an emphatic literary device. The 3rd person feminine singular suffix on the noun functions as a dative of disadvantage: “as a wall against her” (A. B. Davidson, Hebrew Syntax, 3, remark 2). The expression means “I will build a wall to bar her way.” Cf. “I will make a wall”; “I will build a wall”; , , “I will build a wall against her”; “I will fence her in.”
  4. 18 The disjunctive clause (object followed by negated verb) introduces a clause which can be understood as either purpose or result.
  5. 19 Heb “her paths” (so , ).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns,

and I will build a wall against her,

so that she cannot find her paths.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes;

I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

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.

NLTNew Living Translation

“For this reason I will fence her in with thornbushes.

I will block her path with a wall

to make her lose her way.

LEBThe Lexham English 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.

KJV 1900King James Version

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns,

And make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.