6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. …
For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-13)God here goes on to threaten what he would do with this treacherous idolatrous people; and he warns that he may not wound, he threatens that he may not strike. If he turn not, he will whet his sword (Ps. 7:12); but, if he turn, he will sheathe it. They did not turn, and therefore all this came upon them: and its being threatened before shows that it was the execution of a divine sentence upon them…
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