Hosea 2:6
Therefore, behold,
What it says
The LORD will hedge up her way with thorns and wall her in so she cannot find her paths.
What it is doing
This verse introduces frustrated pursuit as an act of disciplinary mercy.
In context
1“Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ 2Rebuke your mother, 3Otherwise, I will strip her naked 4I will have no compassion on her children, 5For their mother has played the harlot 6Therefore, behold, 7She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; 8For she does not acknowledge 9Therefore I will take back My grain in its time 10And then I will expose her lewdness 11I will put an end to all her exultation: 12I will destroy her vines and fig trees, 13I will punish her for the days of the Baals