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OEB That is why I am going to hedge up her ways with thorns,
 ⇔ and build a wall about her,
 ⇔ so that she cannot find her paths.

WEBBE Therefore behold,[fn] I will hedge up your way with thorns,
 ⇔ and I will build a wall against her,
 ⇔ that she can’t find her way.

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WMBB (Same as above including footnotes)

MSG ^(2-13)“Haul your mother into court. Accuse her!
  She’s no longer my wife.
  I’m no longer her husband.
Tell her to quit dressing like a whore,
  displaying her breasts for sale.
If she refuses, I’ll rip off her clothes
  and expose her, naked as a newborn.
I’ll turn her skin into dried-out leather,
  her body into a badlands landscape,
  a rack of bones in the desert.
I’ll have nothing to do with her children,
  born one and all in a whorehouse.
Face it: Your mother’s been a whore,
  bringing bastard children into the world.
She said, ‘I’m off to see my lovers!
  They’ll wine and dine me,
Dress and caress me,
  perfume and adorn me!’
But I’ll fix her: I’ll dump her in a field of thistles,
  then lose her in a dead-end alley.
She’ll go on the hunt for her lovers
  but not bring down a single one.
She’ll look high and low
  but won’t find a one. Then she’ll say,
‘I’m going back to my husband, the one I started out with.
  That was a better life by far than this one.’
She didn’t know that it was I all along
  who wined and dined and adorned her,
That I was the one who dressed her up
  in the big-city fashions and jewelry
  that she wasted on wild Baal-orgies.
I’m about to bring her up short: No more wining and dining!
  Silk lingerie and gowns are a thing of the past.
I’ll expose her genitals to the public.
  All her fly-by-night lovers will be helpless to help her.
Party time is over. I’m calling a halt to the whole business,
  her wild weekends and unholy holidays.
I’ll wreck her sumptuous gardens and ornamental fountains,
  of which she bragged, ‘Whoring paid for all this!’
They will soon be dumping grounds for garbage,
  feeding grounds for stray dogs and cats.
I’ll make her pay for her indulgence in promiscuous religion—
  all that sensuous Baal worship
And all the promiscuous sex that went with it,
  stalking her lovers, dressed to kill,
And not a thought for me.”
  God’s Message!

NET Therefore, I will soon fence her in with thorns;
 ⇔ I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.

LSV Therefore, behold, I am hedging up your way with thorns,
And I have made a wall for her,
And her paths she does not find.

FBV That is why I am going to block her path with thorn bushes, and build a stone wall to stop her so she won't find her way.

T4T So it will be as though [MET] I am blocking their road with thornbushes,
 ⇔ and putting put a wall around them
 ⇔ so that they do not know which way to go.

LEB  •  I am going to hedge her path[fn] [fn] •  and I will build a stone wall, a stone wall against her, •  and she will not find her paths.

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BBE For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.

Moff  ⇔ Now then I will block up her path
 ⇔ with a thorn-hedge,
 ⇔ and bar the road against her,
 ⇔ till she cannot find her way;

JPS (2-8) Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will make a wall against her, 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.

DRA Wherefore behold I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will stop it up with a wall, and 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.

Drby 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.

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

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

KJB-1769 ¶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.[fn]
   (¶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy/your way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. )

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KJB-1611 ¶ Therefore behold, I will hedge vp thy way with thornes, and [fn]make a wall, that she shall not find her pathes.
   (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

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Bshps Therefore beholde, I wyll stop thy way with thornes, and make a hedge, that she shall not finde her pathes.
   (Therefore behold, I will stop thy/your way with thorns, and make a hedge, that she shall not find her paths.)

Gnva Therefore beholde, I will stoope thy way with thornes, and make an hedge, that shee shall not finde her pathes.
   (Therefore behold, I will stoope thy/your way with thorns, and make an hedge, that she shall not find her paths. )

Cvdl But I will hedge hir waye with thornes, and stoppe it, that she shal not fynde hir fotestoppes:
   (But I will hedge her way with thorns, and stop it, that she shall not find her fotestoppes:)

Wycl For this thing lo! Y schal hegge thi weie with thornes, and Y schal hegge it with a wal, and sche schal not fynde hir pathis.
   (For this thing lo! I shall hegge thy/your way with thorns, and I shall hegge it with a wal, and she shall not find her pathis.)

Luth und mich ihrer Kinder nicht erbarme; denn sie sind Hurenkinder,
   (and me of_their/her children not erbarme; because they/she/them are Hurenkinder,)

ClVg Propter hoc ecce ego sepiam viam tuam spinis, et sepiam eam maceria, et semitas suas non inveniet.
   (Because this behold I sepiam road tuam spinis, and sepiam her maceria, and path their_own not/no inveniet. )