Thus says the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, with which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.
Hosea 4:5 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) You will stumble in the day, and the prophet will also stumble with you in the 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. |
Thus says the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, with which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.
Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly.
Concerning 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.
your mother shall be utterly disappointed; she who bore you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?
Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.'
The pride of Yisra'el testifies to his face. Therefore Yisra'el and Efrayim will stumble in their iniquity. Yehudah also will stumble with them.
I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
It will come to pass in that day, says the LORD of Armies, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will no more be remembered; and also I will cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land.
But the Yerushalayim that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.