Hosea 4:5

You will stumble in the day,and the prophet will also stumble with you in the night;and I will destroy your mother.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

4"Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; For your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.

6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you,that you may be no priest to me.Because you have forgotten your God's law,I will also forget your children.

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Cross References

Isaiah 9:13Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them,neither have they sought the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 6:4"Prepare war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us! For the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

Jeremiah 6:15Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush.Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;at the time that I visit them, they shall be cast down," says the Lord.

Jeremiah 14:15Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, and I did not send them, yet they say, 'Sword and famine shall not be in this land:' 'By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.'

Jeremiah 23:9Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of the Lord, and because of his holy words.

Ezekiel 13:9My hand shall be against the prophets who see false visions, and who divine lies: they shall not be in the council 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 you shall know that I am the Lord God.

Matthew Henry on Hosea 4:2-6

The Sinfulness of Israel. ( b. c. 758.) 1 Hear the word of the Lord , ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. 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… Read the whole commentary →

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