Hosea 4:5
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
4 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.
6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You will stumble by day, and the prophet will stumble with you by night; so I will destroy your mother—
- KJV
- Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.
- WEB
- You will stumble in the day, and the prophet will also stumble with you in the night; and I will destroy your mother.
- ASV
- And thou shalt stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with thee in the night; and I will destroy thy mother.
- DARBY
- And thou shalt stumble by day; and the prophet also shall stumble with thee by night: and I will destroy thy mother.
- BLB
- And you will stumble by day, and will stumble also the prophet with you by night, and I will destroy your mother.
- ÅB
- Du skal omkomme om dagen, og profeten skal omkomme med deg om natten, og jeg vil tilintetgjøre din mor.
- OTB
- Du skal snuble om dagen, og profeten skal også snuble med deg om natten; og jeg vil ødelegge din mor.
- B1930
- Du skal omkomme om dagen, og profeten skal omkomme med dig om natten, og jeg vil tilintetgjøre din mor.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hosea 2:2
Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
Read in contextJeremiah 15:8
Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
Read in contextGalatians 4:26
But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Read in contextZechariah 13:2
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
Read in contextEzekiel 16:44–45
Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
Read in contextHosea 9:7–8
The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
Read in contextZechariah 11:8
Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
Read in contextIsaiah 50:1
Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
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