Thus says the Lord: Where is your mother’s bill of divorce with which I dismissed her? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? No, because of your sins you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was dismissed.
Hosea 4:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 You shall stumble by day; the prophet also shall stumble with you by night, and I will destroy your mother. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And you shall stumble in the daytime, and the [false] prophet also shall stumble with you in the night; and I will destroy your mother [the priestly nation]. [Exod. 19:6.] American Standard Version (1901) And thou shalt stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with thee in the night; and I will destroy thy mother. Common English Bible You will stumble by day; and at nighttime so will your prophet, and I will destroy your mother. Catholic Public Domain Version And you will be ruined on this day, and now the prophet will be ruined with you. In the night, I have made your mother to be silent. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And thou shalt fall to day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee: in the night I have made thy mother to be silent. |
Thus says the Lord: Where is your mother’s bill of divorce with which I dismissed her? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? No, because of your sins you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was dismissed.
Their widows became more numerous than the sand of the seas; I have brought against the mothers of youths a destroyer at noonday; I have made anguish and terror fall upon her suddenly.
Concerning the prophets: My heart is crushed within me; all my bones shake; I have become like a drunkard, like one overcome by wine, because of the Lord and because of his holy words.
your mother shall be utterly shamed, and she who bore you shall be disgraced. She shall be the last of the nations, a wilderness, dry land, and a desert.
Mortal, these men have taken their idols into their hearts and placed their iniquity as a stumbling block before them; shall I let myself be consulted by them?
Plead with your mother, plead— for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband— that she put away her prostitution from her face and her adultery from between her breasts,
For their mother has prostituted herself; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, “I will go after my lovers; they give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”
Israel’s pride testifies against him; Ephraim stumbles in his guilt; Judah also stumbles with them.
In one month I disposed of the three shepherds, for I had become impatient with them, and they also detested me.
On that day, says the Lord of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more, and also I will remove from the land the prophets and the unclean spirit.
But the other woman corresponds to the Jerusalem above; she is free, and she is our mother.