This is what the Lord says: Where is your mother’s divorce certificate that I used to send her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was sent away because of your transgressions.
Hosea 4:5 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised You will stumble by day; the prophet will also stumble with you by night. And I will destroy your mother. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
This is what the Lord says: Where is your mother’s divorce certificate that I used to send her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was sent away because of your transgressions.
I made their widows more numerous than the sand of the seas. I brought a destroyer at noon against the mother of young men. I suddenly released on her agitation and terrors.
Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me, and all my bones tremble. I have become like a drunkard, like a man overcome by wine, because of the Lord, because of his holy words.
your mother will be utterly humiliated; she who bore you will be put to shame. Look! She will lag behind all the nations – an arid wilderness, a desert.
‘Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and have put their sinful stumbling blocks in front of themselves. Should I actually let them enquire of me?
Rebuke your mother; rebuke her. For she is not my wife and I am not her husband. Let her remove the promiscuous look from her face and her adultery from between her breasts.
Yes, their mother is promiscuous; she conceived them and acted shamefully. For she thought, ‘I will follow my lovers, the men who give me my food and water, my wool and flax, my oil and drink.’
Israel’s arrogance testifies against them. , Both Israel and Ephraim stumble because of their iniquity; even Judah will stumble with them.
In one month I got rid of three shepherds. I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.
On that day’ #– #this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies #– #‘I will remove the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will banish the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.