Hosea 2:6
New Living Translation
6 “For this reason I will fence her in with thornbushes.
I will block her path with a wall
to make her lose her way.
Job 19:8
New Living Translation
8 God has blocked my way so I cannot move.
He has plunged my path into darkness.
Job 3:23
New Living Translation
23 Why is life given to those with no future,
those God has surrounded with difficulties?
Lamentations 3:7-9
New Living Translation
7 He has walled me in, and I cannot escape.
He has bound me in heavy chains.
8 And though I cry and shout,
he has shut out my prayers.
9 He has blocked my way with a high stone wall;
he has made my road crooked.
Luke 19:43
New Living Translation
43 Before long your enemies will build ramparts against your walls and encircle you and close in on you from every side.
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Luke 15:14-16
New Living Translation
14 About the time his money ran out, a great famine swept over the land, and he began to starve. 15 He persuaded a local farmer to hire him, and the man sent him into his fields to feed the pigs. 16 The young man became so hungry that even the pods he was feeding the pigs looked good to him. But no one gave him anything.
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