Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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 "Let no one fight or bring charges against another, for my dispute is with you, priest. 5 So you will stumble during the day, the prophet also will stumble with you at night, and I will destroy your mother. 6 My people are destroyed because they lack knowledge of me. Because you rejected that knowledge, I will reject you as a priest for me. Since you forget the Law of your God, I will also forget your children.

Cross References

Jeremiah 15:8

I'll make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. At noontime I'll send a destroyer against the mother of a young man. I'll cause terror and anguish to come to her unexpectedly.

Hosea 2:2

"Call your mother to account, call her for she is not my wife, and I'm not her husband. Let her do away with her seductive looks and remove her adultery from between her breasts.

Isaiah 9:13-17

"But the people have not returned to rely on him who struck them, nor have they sought the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

Isaiah 50:1

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! It's because of your sins that you were sold, and because of your transgressions that your mother was sent away.

Jeremiah 6:4-5

Prepare for war against her. Get ready, let's attack at noon! How terrible for us that the day is coming to an end, and that the evening shadows are lengthening.

Jeremiah 6:12-15

Their houses will be turned over to others their fields and wives together when I stretch out my hand against those who live in the land," declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 8:10-12

Therefore, I'll give their wives to others, and their fields to new owners. Indeed, from the least important to the most important, they're all greedy for dishonest gain. From prophet to priest, they all act deceitfully.

Jeremiah 14:15-16

Therefore, this is what the LORD says about the false prophets who prophesy in my name, "There will be no sword and famine in this land' (though I haven't sent them): "By the sword and by famine these prophets will be finished off!

Jeremiah 23:9

Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me, and all my bones shake. I'm like a drunk man, like a person overcome with wine, because of the LORD, and because of his holy words.

Jeremiah 50:12

your mother will be greatly devastated, she who gave birth to you will be ashamed. She will become the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Ezekiel 13:9-16

My hand will oppose the prophets who see false visions and speak deceptive divinations. They won't be included with the council of my people, nor will they be entered into the registry of Israel's house or enter Israel's land. Then you'll know that I am the Lord GOD,

Ezekiel 14:7-10

For when a native Israeli or a resident alien abandons me to set up idols in his heart behind my back, and then places the stumbling block of his iniquity right in front of his own face, then approaches a prophet to inquire of me on behalf of his own self-interest, I, the LORD will answer him myself.

Ezekiel 16:44-45

"Now, everyone who likes proverbs will quote this proverb about you, "Like mother, like daughter.'

Hosea 9:7-8

The time for your judgment has now come; payday is here and Israel knows it. The prophet is a fool, and the spiritual man is insane. Because of your great sin, the hatred against you is great.

Micah 3:5-7

"This is what the LORD says about the prophets who are causing my people to go astray, who are calling out "Peace' when they're being fed, but who declare war against those who won't feed them:

Zechariah 11:8

In a single month I got rid of three shepherds because I grew tired of them, and they despised me.

Zechariah 13:2

"At that time," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "I will eliminate the names of the idols from the land, and they will not be remembered anymore. I will also force both prophet and demon to leave the land.

Galatians 4:26

But the heavenly Jerusalem is the free woman, and she is our spiritual mother.

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