Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
You will stumble [by] day, and the priest also will stumble with you at night. And I will destroy your mother;
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.
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 Yet, let no one contend, and let no one accuse, for with you, O priest, [is my] contention. 5 You will stumble [by] day, and the priest also will stumble with you at 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 acting as a priest for me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 15:8
Their widows will be more numerous before me than [the] sand of [the] seas. I have brought to them, against [the] mothers of young men, a destroyer at noon. I will suddenly drop on her anguish and horror.
Hosea 2:2
Plead with your mother, plead-- because she [is] not my wife, and I [am] not her husband. Let her put away her whoring {from before her}, and her adultery from between her breasts.
Isaiah 9:13-17
And the people did not turn to the one who struck it, and they did not seek Yahweh of hosts.
Isaiah 50:1
Thus says Yahweh: "Where [is] this divorce document of your mother's divorce, [with] which I dismissed her? or to whom of my creditors did I sell you? Look! you were sold because of your sin, and your mother was dismissed because of your transgressions.
Jeremiah 6:4-5
{Sanctify} war against her. Arise, and let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the day turns, for [the] shadows of evening are lengthened.
Jeremiah 6:12-15
And their houses will be turned over to others, [their] fields and [their] wives together. For I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land," {declares} Yahweh.
Jeremiah 8:10-12
Therefore I will give their wives to others, their fields to conquerors, because from [the] smallest to [the] greatest, all of them make profit [for] unlawful gain, from prophet to priest, all of them practice deceit.
Jeremiah 14:15-16
{Therefore} thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who prophecy in my name though I have not sent them, yet they [are] saying, "Sword and famine will not be in this land." "By the sword and by the famine those prophets will perish.
Jeremiah 23:9
Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken in my midst. All my bones tremble. I have become like a drunken man, even like a man over whom wine has passed, because of Yahweh, and because of {his holy words}.
Jeremiah 50:12
your mother will be very ashamed. [She who] gave birth [to] you will be humiliated. Look, [she will be the] least of [the] nations, a desert, dry land, and wilderness.
Ezekiel 13:9-16
"And it will be my hand against the prophets who [are] seeing falseness and who [are] practicing lying divination. They will not be in the council of my people, and they will not be written [down] in the record [book] of the house of Israel, and into the land of Israel they will not come, and [then] you will know that I [am] the Lord Yahweh.
Ezekiel 14:7-10
For {each person} from the house of Israel, and from the alien who dwells as an alien in Israel, who separates himself {from following me} and brings up his idols into his heart and {places before himself} a stumbling block of his guilt, and [yet] he comes to the prophet to consult him concerning me, I Yahweh will answer him myself.
Ezekiel 16:44-45
Look! Everyone quoting a proverb against you, he will quote, {saying}, 'Like her mother [is] her daughter!'
Hosea 9:7-8
The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have come; Israel knows! The prophet [is] a fool, the man of the spirit [is] acting like a madman. Because of the greatness of your sin, [your] hostility [is] great.
Micah 3:5-7
Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who are leading my people astray, who are biting with their teeth and proclaim, "Peace," but whoever puts nothing into their mouths they declare war against.
Zechariah 11:8
And I got rid of three shepherds in one month, for {I grew impatient} with them, and {they also became tired of me}.
Zechariah 13:2
{And then}, on that day,' {declares} Yahweh of hosts, 'I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and also the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness I will banish from the land.
Galatians 4:26
But the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.