Hosea 4:5

Good News Translation

Night and day you blunder on, and the prophets do no better than you. I am going to destroy Israel, your mother.

Cross References

Isaiah 50:1

The Lord says, “Do you think I sent my people away like a man who divorces his wife? Where, then, are the papers of divorce? Do you think I sold you into captivity like a man who sells his children as slaves? No, you went away captive because of your sins; you were sent away because of your crimes.

Jeremiah 15:8

There are more widows in your land than grains of sand by the sea. I killed your young men in their prime and made their mothers suffer. I suddenly struck them with anguish and terror.

Jeremiah 23:9

My heart is crushed, and I am trembling. Because of the Lord, because of his holy words, I am like a man who is drunk, someone who has had too much wine.

Jeremiah 50:12

but your own great city will be humiliated and disgraced. Babylonia will be the least important nation of all; it will become a dry and waterless desert.

Ezekiel 14:3

“Mortal man,” he said, “these men have given their hearts to idols and are letting idols lead them into sin. Do they think I will give them an answer?

Hosea 2:2

My children, plead with your mother—though she is no longer a wife to me, and I am no longer her husband. Plead with her to stop her adultery and prostitution.

Hosea 5:5

The arrogance of the people of Israel cries out against them. Their sins make them stumble and fall, and the people of Judah fall with them.

Zechariah 11:8

I lost patience with three other shepherds, who hated me, and I got rid of them all in a single month.

Zechariah 13:2

At that time I will remove the names of the idols from the land, and no one will remember them any more. I will get rid of anyone who claims to be a prophet and will take away the desire to worship idols.

Galatians 4:26

But the heavenly Jerusalem is free, and she is our mother.