Hosea 4 · Verse 5

Hosea 4:5

Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.
Hosea 4:5, King James Version

Hosea 4:5 in other translations

BSBYou will stumble by day, and the prophet will stumble with you by night; so I will destroy your mother—
WEBYou will stumble in the day, and the prophet will also stumble with you in the night; and I will destroy your mother.
ASVAnd thou shalt stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with thee in the night; and I will destroy thy mother.
YLTAnd thou hast stumbled in the day, And stumbled hath also a prophet with thee in the night, And I have cut off thy mother.
DARBYAnd thou shalt stumble by day; and the prophet also shall stumble with thee by night: and I will destroy thy mother.
BBEYou 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.
WebsterTherefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.

What does Hosea 4:5 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
5. 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).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 5 Therefore 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Hosea 4:1-5

God's judgments against the sins of the people. (Hos. 4:1-5) and of the priests. (Hos. 4:6-11) Idolatry is reproved, and Judah is admonished. (Hos. 4:12-19) Verses 1-5 Hosea reproves for immorality, as well as idolatry. There was no truth, mercy, or knowledge of God in the land: it was full of murders, II Kin. 21:16. Therefore calamities were near, which would desolate the country. Our sins, as separate persons, as…

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Hosea 4:5 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְכָשַׁלְתָּ֣ve.kha.shal.Taand you will stumbleH3782
הַיּ֔וֹםhai.Yomthe dayH3117
וְכָשַׁ֧לve.kha.Shaland he will stumbleH3782
גַּם\־gam-alsoH1571
נָבִ֛יאna.Vi'a prophetH5030
עִמְּךָ֖'i.me.Khawith youH5973
לָ֑יְלָהLa.ye.lahnightH3915
וְדָמִ֖יתִיve.da.Mi.tiand I will destroyH1820
אִמֶּֽךָ\׃'i.Me.khamother yourH517

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Cross references for Hosea 4:5

  • 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;

  • Jeremiah 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.

  • Galatians 4:26

    But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

  • Zechariah 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.

  • Ezekiel 16:44-45

    Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. Thou art thy mother’s daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

  • Hosea 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. The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

  • Zechariah 11:8

    Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.

  • Isaiah 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.

  • Micah 3:5-7

    Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him. Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them. Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.

  • Jeremiah 6:12-15

    And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord. For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.

  • Jeremiah 6:4-5

    Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out. Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

  • Ezekiel 13:9-16

    And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord God. Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter: Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it. Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it? …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
and the prophet.
9:7,8; Isa 9:13-17; Jer 6:4,5,12-15; 8:10-12; 14:15,16
Jer 15:8; 23:9; Eze 13:9-16; 14:8-10; Mic 3:5-7; Zec 11:8; 13:2
destroy. Heb. cut off. thy.
2:2; Isa 50:1; Jer 15:8; 50:12; Eze 16:44,45; Ga 4:26

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Context

  • Hosea 4:4

    Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.

  • Hosea 4:5

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

  • Hosea 4:6

    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.

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Hosea 4:5 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Caerás por tanto en el día, y caerá también contigo el profeta de noche; y á tu madre talaré.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et tu broncheras de jour, et le prophète aussi avec toi bronchera de nuit: et je détruirai ta mère.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und du wirst fallen bei Tage, und auch der Prophet wird mit dir fallen bei Nacht; und ich werde deine Mutter vertilgen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et corrues hodie, et corruet etiam propheta tecum. Nocte tacere feci matrem tuam.