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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?
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.
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
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 4:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Lord Accuses The Priests
4 Yet is there none, that will chasten nor reprove another. The priests which should reform other men, are become like the people. 5 Therefore stumblest thou in the daytime and the prophet with them in the night. I will bring thy mother to silence, and why? 6 My people perish, because they have no knowledge. Seeing then that thou hast refused understanding, therefore will I refuse thee also: so that thou shalt no more be my priest. And forsomuch as thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 15:8
I will make their widows more in number than the sands of the sea. Upon the mothers of their children, I shall bring a destroyer in the noonday. Suddenly and unawares, shall I send a fear upon their cities.
Hosea 2:2
As for your mother, ye shall chide with her, and reprove her: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband, unless she put away her whoredoms out of my sight, and her adultery from her breasts.
Isaiah 9:13-17
For the people turneth not unto him, that chastiseth them, neither do they seek the LORD of Hosts.
Isaiah 50:1
Thus sayeth the LORD: Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, that I sent unto her? Or who is the usurer, to whom I sold you? Behold, for your own offenses are ye sold: and because of your transgression, is your mother forsaken.
Jeremiah 6:4-5
"Make battle against her!" shall they say. "Arise, let us go up, while it is yet day!" "Alas, the day goeth away, and the night shadows fall down!"
Jeremiah 6:12-15
Their houses with their lands and wives shall be turned unto strangers, when I stretch out mine hand upon the inhabiters of this land," sayeth the LORD.
Jeremiah 8:10-12
Wherefore, I will give their wives unto aliens, and their fields to destroyers. For from the lowest to the highest, they follow all filthy lucre: and from the Prophet unto the priest, they deal all with lies.
Jeremiah 14:15-16
Therefore, thus sayeth the LORD: As for those prophets that preach in my name, whom I nevertheless have not sent, and that say, 'Tush, there shall neither battle, nor hunger be in this land': With sword and with hunger shall those prophets perish,
Jeremiah 23:9
My heart breaketh in my body because of the false prophets, all my bones shake: I am become like a drunken man that by the reason of wine can take no rest; for very fear of the LORD, and of his holy words.
Jeremiah 50:12
Your mothers shall be sore confounded; and they that bare you, shall come to shame. She shall be the least set by among the nations, void, waste, and dried up.
Ezekiel 13:9-16
Mine hands shall come upon the prophets that look out vain things and preach lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, nor written in the book of the house of Israel, neither shall they come in the land of Israel: that ye may know how that I am the LORD God.
Ezekiel 14:7-10
For every man, whether he be of the house of Israel, or a stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which departeth from me, and carrieth idols in his heart, purposing to go still stumbling in his own wickedness, and cometh to a Prophet, for to ask counsel at me through him: unto that man will I the LORD give answer, by mine own self.
Ezekiel 16:44-45
"'Behold, all they that use common proverbs, shall use this proverb also against thee: 'Like mother, like daughter.'
Hosea 9:7-8
Be ye sure, O Israel: the time of visitation is come, the days of recompensing are at hand. As for the prophet, ye hold him for a fool; and him that is rich in the spirit, for a mad man: so great is your wickedness and malice.
Micah 3:5-7
And as concerning the prophets that deceive my people, thus the LORD sayeth against them: When they have any thing to bite upon, then they preach that all shall be well. But if a man put not some thing in to their mouths, they preach of war against him.
Zechariah 11:8
Three shepherds destroyed I in one month, for I might not away with them, neither had they any delight in me.
Zechariah 13:2
And then, sayeth the LORD of Hosts, I will destroy the names of Idols out of the land: so that they shall no more be put in remembrance. As for the false prophets also and the unclean spirit, I shall take them out of the land:
Galatians 4:26
But Jerusalem, which is above, is free: which is the mother of us all.