Hosea 4:5

Translations

Modern

You will stumble by day, and the prophet will stumble with you by night; so I will destroy your mother—

Traditional

Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.

Literal

And you will stumble by day, and will stumble also the prophet with you by night, and I will destroy your mother.

Latin

Et corrues hodie, et corruet etiam propheta tecum. Nocte tacere feci matrem tuam.

Original

Hebrew

English

You will stumble by day, and the prophet will stumble with you by night; so I will destroy your mother—

Notes

Hosea 4:4–5

When accused of a crime, people often blame others. However, God made it clear that Israel’s apostasy was the fault of its religious leaders, priests, and false prophets.
God’s judgment on the priests and prophets was that they would stumble and fall, both in their work and in their personal lives. (The same Hebrew word is used for both kinds of stumbling.)

Theme notes and profiles

The Broken Covenant The Stone the Builders Rejected

Events

Prophecies of Hoseac. 785 BC

Related verses

Hosea 2:2
Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.
Jeremiah 15:8
I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.
Galatians 4:26
But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
Zechariah 13:2
And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.
Ezekiel 14:7–10
For when any Israelite or any foreigner dwelling in Israel separates himself from Me, sets up idols in his heart, and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of Me, I the LORD will answer him Myself.
Hosea 9:7–8
The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have arrived—let Israel know it. The prophet is called a fool, and the inspired man insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and hostility.
Ezekiel 13:9–16
My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and speak lying divinations. They will not belong to the council of My people or be recorded in the register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 16:44–45
Behold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
Jeremiah 23:9
As for the prophets: My heart is broken within me, and all my bones tremble. I have become like a drunkard, like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD, because of His holy words.
Jeremiah 6:4–5
‘Prepare for battle against her; rise up, let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the daylight is fading; the evening shadows grow long.
Isaiah 9:13–17
But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.
Jeremiah 50:12
…your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Glossary

Hosea, Book of New Covenant

Topics

Sin: The Israelites

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