The Meaning of Hosea 2:6 Explained

Hosea 2:6

KJV: Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

YLT: 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.

Darby: 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.

ASV: 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.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Hosea 2:6 Mean?

Verse Meaning

Hosea said he would oppose Gomer as though he put a hedge of thorns or a wall across her path so she would turn aside from her ways.
Yahweh would make it perilously difficult for Israel to pursue idols.

Context Summary

Hosea 2:1-13 - The Bitter Sin Of Wandering From God
Hosea is represented as having exhausted his expostulations upon his faithless wife. He has tried every arrow in love's quiver, but in vain; so now he sends his children, worse than motherless, to plead with their mother, before she brings upon them all irretrievable retribution.
Almost insensibly our mind passes from the pleadings of the human love to the divine Bridegroom. Often He has to erect thorn hedges about us-not that He takes pleasure in thwarting us, but that we may be diverted from ruin. There was no better method of turning Israel from her idols than by withholding that material prosperity which she thought they gave. Has not this been our experience also? Our mirth has ceased and our prosperity has vanished. We have sat amid the wrecks of a happy past. It is not that God has ceased to care for us, but that He longs to wean us back to Himself. Have we reached the point of saying, "It was better with me then than now?" Then let us be of good cheer! The dawn is already on the hills, and God's coming to us, in restoring grace, is like the breaking glory of the morning! [source]

Chapter Summary: Hosea 2

1  The idolatry of the people
6  God's judgments against them
14  His promises of reconciliation with them

What do the individual words in Hosea 2:6 mean?

Therefore behold I will hedge up - your way with thorns and wall in her so that her paths cannot she find
לָכֵ֛ן הִנְנִי־ שָׂ֥ךְ אֶת־ דַּרְכֵּ֖ךְ בַּסִּירִ֑ים וְגָֽדַרְתִּי֙ גְּדֵרָ֔הּ וּנְתִיבוֹתֶ֖יהָ לֹ֥א תִמְצָֽא

הִנְנִי־  behold 
Parse: Interjection, first person common singular
Root: הֵן  
Sense: behold, lo, though hypothetical part.
שָׂ֥ךְ  I  will  hedge  up 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine singular
Root: שׂוּךְ  
Sense: to hedge or fence up or about.
אֶת־  - 
Parse: Direct object marker
Root: אֹות 
Sense: sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative.
דַּרְכֵּ֖ךְ  your  way 
Parse: Noun, common singular construct, second person feminine singular
Root: דֶּרֶךְ  
Sense: way, road, distance, journey, manner.
בַּסִּירִ֑ים  with  thorns 
Parse: Preposition-b, Article, Noun, feminine plural
Root: סִיר 
Sense: pot.
וְגָֽדַרְתִּי֙  and  wall  in 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Conjunctive perfect, first person common singular
Root: גָּדַר  
Sense: to wall up, wall off, close off, build a wall.
גְּדֵרָ֔הּ  her 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person feminine singular
Root: גְּדֵרָה 
Sense: wall, hedge.
וּנְתִיבוֹתֶ֖יהָ  so  that  her  paths 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine plural construct, third person feminine singular
Root: נָתִיב 
Sense: trodden with the feet, path, pathway.
לֹ֥א  cannot 
Parse: Adverb, Negative particle
Root: הֲלֹא 
Sense: not, no.
תִמְצָֽא  she  find 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person feminine singular
Root: מָצָא  
Sense: to find, attain to.

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