Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, And I will build a wall against her, That she can't find her way.
      IV. They shall lose all their pleasure, and shall be left melancholy (Hosea 2:11; Hosea 2:11): I will cause her mirth to cease. It seems, then, though they had gone a whoring from their God, yet they could find in their hearts to rejoice as other people, which is forbidden, Hosea 9:1; Hosea 9:1. Note, Many who lie under guilt and wrath are yet very jocund and merry, and live jovially; but, whether in their laughter their hearts be sad or no, it is certain that the end of their mirth will be heaviness; for God will cause all their mirth to cease. It is as Mr. Burroughs observes here, Sin and mirth can never hold long together; but, if men will not take away sin from their mirth, God will take away mirth from their sin.