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.
      I. They shall be perplexed and embarrassed in all their counsels, and disappointed in all their expectations. This is threatened Hosea 2:6; Hosea 2:7. But to the threatening is annexed a promise that this shall be a means to convince them of their folly, and bring them home to their duty; and so good shall be brought out of evil, in token of the mercy God has yet in reserve for them. And, this being the happy fruit and effect of the distress, it is hard to say whether the prediction, or the distress itself, should be called a threatening or a promise.