Hosea 4:5 “You will stumble by day, and the prophet will stumble with you by nigh…”

Hosea 4:5

You will stumble by day, and the prophet will stumble with you by night; so I will destroy your mother—

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.

World English Bible

You will stumble in the day, and the prophet will also stumble with you in the night; and I will destroy your mother.

American Standard Version

And thou shalt stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with thee in the night; and I will destroy thy mother.

Geneva Bible 1599

Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the Prophet shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.

Darby Translation

And thou shalt stumble by day; and the prophet also shall stumble with thee by night: and I will destroy thy mother.

Young's Literal Translation

And thou hast stumbled in the day, And stumbled hath also a prophet with thee in the night, And I have cut off thy mother.

Bible in Basic English

You will not be able to keep on your feet by day, and by night the prophet will be falling down with you, and I will give your mother to destruction.

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Cross references

“and the prophet”

Jeremiah 15:8 Zechariah 13:2 Isaiah 9:13–17 Jeremiah 6:12–15 Jeremiah 8:10–12 Jeremiah 23:9

Jeremiah 15:8 · BSB

I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.

Zechariah 13:2 · BSB

And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.

Isaiah 9:13–17 · BSB

But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.

Jeremiah 6:12–15 · BSB

Their houses will be turned over to others, their fields and wives as well, for I will stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 8:10–12 · BSB

Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.

Jeremiah 23:9 · BSB

As for the prophets: My heart is broken within me, and all my bones tremble. I have become like a drunkard, like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD, because of His holy words.

“thy”

Hosea 2:2 Galatians 4:26 Isaiah 50:1 Jeremiah 50:12 Ezekiel 16:44 Ezekiel 16:45

Hosea 2:2 · BSB

Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.

Galatians 4:26 · BSB

But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

Isaiah 50:1 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your…

Jeremiah 50:12 · BSB

your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Ezekiel 16:44 · BSB

Behold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

Ezekiel 16:45 · BSB

You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

Also

Ezekiel 14:7–10

Ezekiel 14:7–10 · BSB

For when any Israelite or any foreigner dwelling in Israel separates himself from Me, sets up idols in his heart, and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of Me, I the L…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4But let no man contend; let no man offer reproof; for your people are like those who contend with a priest.

6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

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