Hosea 4:5

Hosea 4:5 in other versions

• King James Version (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.
• New International Version (NIV)You stumble day and night, and the prophets stumble with you. So I will destroy your mother—
• English Standard Version (ESV)You shall stumble by day; the prophet also shall stumble with you by night; and I will destroy your mother.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore you shall stumble in the day; The prophet also shall stumble with you in the night; And I will destroy your mother.

Context of Hosea 4:5

3Therefore the land mourns, And everyone who lives in it languishes Along with the animals of the field and the birds of the sky, And even the fish of the sea disappear. 4Yet let no one find fault, and let no one rebuke; For your people are like those who contend with a priest. So you will stumble by day, And the prophet also will stumble with you by night; And I will destroy your mother. 6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Since you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being My priest. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I also will forget your children. 7The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me; I will change their glory into shame.

Hosea 4:5 word by word

וְכָשַׁלְתָּ֣ הַיּ֔וֹם וְכָשַׁ֧ל גַּם־נָבִ֛יא עִמְּךָ֖ לָ֑יְלָה וְדָמִ֖יתִי אִמֶּֽךָ׃Read the interlinear

• stumbleכָּשַׁלkâshal · to stumbleH3782
• by dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• And the prophetנָבִיאnâbîy' · prophetH5030
• alsoגַּםgam · alsoH1571
• with you by nightלַ֫יְלָהlayil lêyl layelâh · nightH3915
• And I will destroyדָּמָהdâmâh · to ceaseH1820
• motherאֵם'êm · motherH517

Cross-references for Hosea 4:5

• Hosea 9:7The days of punishment have come, The days of retribution have come; Let Israel know this! The prophet is a fool, The inspired person is insane, Because of the grossness of your wrongdoing, And because your hostility is so great.
• Isaiah 9:13Yet the people do not turn back to Him who struck them, Nor do they seek the Lord of armies.
• Jeremiah 6:4‘Prepare for war against her; Arise, and let’s attack at noon. Woe to us, for the day declines, For the shadows of the evening lengthen!
• Jeremiah 8:10Therefore I will give their wives to others, Their fields to new owners; Because from the least even to the greatest Everyone is greedy for gain; From the prophet even to the priest, Everyone practices deceit.
• Jeremiah 14:15Therefore this is what the Lord says concerning the prophets who are prophesying in My name, although it was not I who sent them--yet they keep saying: ‘There will be no sword or famine in this land’--by sword and famine those prophets shall meet their end!
• Jeremiah 15:8Their widows will be more numerous before Me Than the sand of the seas; I will bring against them, against the mother of a young man, A destroyer at noon; I will suddenly bring down on her Shock and horror.
• Jeremiah 23:9As for the prophets: My heart is broken within me, All my bones tremble; I have become like a drunken man, And like a man overcome by wine, Because of the Lord And because of His holy words.
• Ezekiel 13:9“So My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will have no place in the council of My people, nor will they be written down in the register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel, so that you may know that I am the Lord God.
• Ezekiel 14:8I will set My face against that person and make him a sign and a proverb, and I will eliminate him from among My people. So you will know that I am the Lord.
• Micah 3:5This is what the Lord says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray: When they have something to bite with their teeth, They cry out, “Peace!” But against him who puts nothing in their mouths They declare holy war.
• Zechariah 11:8Then I did away with the three shepherds in one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also was tired of me.
• Zechariah 13:2“And it will come about on that day,” declares the Lord of armies, “that I will eliminate the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.
• Hosea 2:2“Dispute with your mother, dispute, Because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; But she must remove her infidelity from her face And her adultery from between her breasts,
• Isaiah 50:1This is what the Lord says: “Where is the certificate of divorce By which I have sent your mother away? Or to whom of My creditors did I sell you? Behold, you were sold for your wrongdoings, And for your wrongful acts your mother was sent away.
• Jeremiah 50:12Your mother will be greatly ashamed, She who gave you birth will be humiliated. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, A wilderness, a dry land and a desert.
• Ezekiel 16:44“Behold, everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you, saying, ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

Commentaries on Hosea 4:5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Therefore shalt thou fall in the day - In the most open and public manner, without snare or ambush. And the prophet also shall fall - in the night - The false prophet, when employed in taking prognostications from stars, meteors, etc. And I will destroy thy mother - The metropolis or mother city. Jerusalem or Samaria is meant.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Therefore shalt thou fall - The two parts of the verse fill up each other. “By day and by night shall they fall, people and prophets together.” Their calamities should come upon them successively, day and night. They should stumble by day, when there is least fear of stumbling John 11:9-10; and night should not by its darkness protect them. Evil should come “at noon-day” Jeremiah 15:8 upon them, seeing it, but unable to repel it; as Isaiah speaks of it as…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-5When 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.)Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. fall in the day--in broad daylight, a time when an attack would not be expected (see on Jr 6:4, 5; Jr 15:8). in ... night--No time, night or day, shall be free from the slaughter of individuals of the people, as well as of the false prophets. thy mother--the Israelitish state, of which the citizens are the children (Ho 2:2).Read the comment

Topics related to Hosea 4:5

• Sin

In the dictionaries

• Languish
• Reject
• Hosea
• Mother
• Priests and Levites
• Zechariah, Book of
• stumble, reeling

Commentaries on Hosea 4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings