Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

So you will stumble by day,
And the prophet also will stumble with you by night;
And I will destroy your mother.

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.

Holman Bible

You will stumble by day;
the prophet will also stumble with you by night.
And I will destroy your mother.

International Standard Version

So you will stumble during the day, the prophet also will stumble with you at night, and I will destroy your mother.

A Conservative Version

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

Amplified


So you will stumble in the daytime,
And the [false] prophet will also stumble with you in the night;
And I will destroy your mother (Israel).

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.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

And thou wert weak in the day, and the prophet also was weak with thee by night, and I destroyed thy mother.

King James 2000

Therefore shall you fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with you in the night, and I will destroy your mother.

Lexham Expanded Bible

You will stumble [by] day, and the priest also will stumble with you at night. And I will destroy your mother;

Modern King James verseion

And you shall stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with you in the night, and I will cut off your mother.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Therefore stumblest thou in the daytime and the prophet with them in the night. I will bring thy mother to silence, and why?

NET Bible

You stumble day and night, and the false prophets stumble with you; You have destroyed your own people!

New Heart 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.

The Emphasized Bible

So shouldst thou stumble in the daytime, and even the prophet stumble with thee, in the night, - and I should destroy thine own mother.

Webster

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.

Youngs 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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
in the day
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

and the prophet
נביא 
Nabiy' 
Usage: 315

with thee in the night
לילה ליל ליל 
Layil 
Usage: 233

and I will destroy
דּמה 
Damah 
Usage: 15

References

Fausets

Context Readings

The Lord Accuses The Priests

4 Yet let no one contend, and let none accuse, for with you is my contention, O priest. 5 So you will stumble by day,
And the prophet also will stumble with you by night;
And I will destroy your mother.
6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

Cross References

Jeremiah 15:8

I have made their widows more in number than the sand of the seas; I have brought against the mothers of young men a destroyer at noonday; I have made anguish and terror fall upon them suddenly.

Hosea 2:2

"Plead with your mother, plead-- for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband-- that she put away her whoring from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts;

Isaiah 9:13-17

The people did not turn to him who struck them, nor inquire of the LORD of hosts.

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says the LORD: "Where is your mother's certificate of divorce, with which I sent her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

Jeremiah 6:4-5

"Prepare war against her; arise, and let us attack at noon! Woe to us, for the day declines, for the shadows of evening lengthen!

Jeremiah 6:12-15

Their houses shall be turned over to others, their fields and wives together, for I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land," declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 8:10-12

Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to conquerors, because from the least to the greatest everyone is greedy for unjust gain; from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.

Jeremiah 14:15-16

Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name although I did not send them, and who say, 'Sword and famine shall not come upon this land': By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed.

Jeremiah 23:9

Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD and because of his holy words.

Jeremiah 50:12

your mother shall be utterly shamed, and she who bore you shall be disgraced. Behold, she shall be the last of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Ezekiel 13:9-16

My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who give lying divinations. They shall not be in the council of my people, nor be enrolled in the register of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 14:7-10

For any one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, taking his idols into his heart and putting the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to a prophet to consult me through him, I the LORD will answer him myself.

Ezekiel 16:44-45

"Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: 'Like mother, like daughter.'

Hosea 9:7-8

The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool; the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred.

Micah 3:5-7

Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry "Peace" when they have something to eat, but declare war against him who puts nothing into their mouths.

Zechariah 11:8

In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.

Zechariah 13:2

"And on that day, declares the LORD of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more. And also I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness.

Galatians 4:26

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

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