Hosea 4:5
What does Hosea 4:5 mean?
A plain-English look at Hosea 4:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And thou shalt stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with thee in the night; and I will destroy thy mother.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And thou shalt stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with thee in the night; and I will destroy thy mother.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949You 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.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And thou hast stumbled in the day, And stumbled hath also a prophet with thee in the night, And I have cut off thy mother.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And thou shalt fall today, and the prophet also shall fall with thee: in the night I have made thy mother to be silent.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And thou shalt stumble by day; and the prophet also shall stumble with thee by night: and I will destroy thy mother.
Context
v.4Yet let no man strive, neither let any man reprove; for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
v.5This passage
v.6My 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 also will forget thy children.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Jeremiah 6:4
Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day declineth, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
- Isaiah 9:13
Yet the people have not turned unto him that smote them, neither have they sought Jehovah of hosts.
- Jeremiah 6:12
And their houses shall be turned unto others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah.
- Galatians 4:26
But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is our mother.
- Hosea 2:2
Contend with your mother, contend; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
- Zechariah 11:8
And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
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