Hosea 2:6
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6 Therefore I will hedge up her[a] way with thorns,
and I will build a wall against her
so that she cannot find her paths.(A)
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- 2.6 Gk Syr: Heb your
Job 19:8
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8 He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
and he has set darkness upon my paths.(A)
Lamentations 3:7-9
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7 He has walled me about so that I cannot escape;
he has put heavy chains on me;(A)
8 though I call and cry for help,
he shuts out my prayer;(B)
9 he has blocked my ways with hewn stones;
he has made my paths crooked.
Job 3:23
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23 Why is light given to one who cannot see the way,
whom God has fenced in?(A)
Luke 19:43
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43 Indeed, the days will come upon you when your enemies will set up ramparts around you and surround you and hem you in on every side.(A)
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Luke 15:14-16
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14 When he had spent everything, a severe famine took place throughout that region, and he began to be in need. 15 So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that region, who sent him to his fields to feed the pigs. 16 He would gladly have filled his stomach[a] with the pods that the pigs were eating, and no one gave him anything.
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- 15.16 Other ancient authorities read filled himself
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