Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
And the prophet also will stumble with you by night;
And I will destroy your
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
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 4:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Lord Accuses The Priests
4
Certainly man does not contend with nor reprehend man; for thy people are as those that resist the priest.
5
And the prophet also will stumble with you by night;
And I will destroy your
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Cross References
Jeremiah 15:8
Their widows are multiplied unto me more than the sand of the sea: I have brought upon them a destroyer at noonday against the young; I have caused him to fall upon her suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
Hosea 2:2
Contend with your mother, contend: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore remove her whoredoms from her face and her adulteries from between her breasts;
Isaiah 9:13-17
But the people did not turn unto him that smote them, neither did they seek the LORD of the hosts.
Isaiah 50:1
Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities ye are sold, and for your rebellions was your mother put away,
Jeremiah 6:4-5
Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up towards the south. Woe unto us! for the day goes away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
Jeremiah 6:12-15
And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together; for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 8:10-12
Therefore I will give their wives unto others and their fields unto those that shall inherit them: for each one from the least even unto the greatest is given to greed; from the prophet even unto the priest every one deals falsely.
Jeremiah 14:15-16
Therefore thus hath the LORD said concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name which I did not send and that say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
Jeremiah 23:9
My heart is broken within me because of the prophets, all my bones shake; I was like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, before the LORD, and before the words of his holiness.
Jeremiah 50:12
your mother was sore confounded; she that bore you was ashamed: see here the latter end of the Gentiles: wilderness, dry land, and desert.
Ezekiel 13:9-16
And my hand shall be against the prophets that see vanity and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the book of the house of Israel, neither shall they return to the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 14:7-10
For any man of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel who has separated himself from walking after me and has set up his idols in his heart and has established the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face and comes to the prophet to enquire of him concerning me, I, the LORD, will answer him by myself:
Ezekiel 16:44-45
Behold, every one that makes proverbs shall make this proverb regarding thee, saying: As is the mother so is her daughter.
Hosea 9:7-8
The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it; the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is a fool, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
Micah 3:5-7
Thus hath the LORD said concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that does not give them something to eat, they even prepare war against him.
Zechariah 11:8
I also cut off three shepherds in one month; and my soul was in anguish for them, and their soul also abhorred me.
Zechariah 13:2
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of the hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no longer be remembered; and I will also cause the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness to be cut off out of the land.
Galatians 4:26
But the Jerusalem of above is free, which is the mother of us all.