Verse Lens · Context pointer
Hosea 4:5 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 5. 5Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.
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Role in This Section
This verse announces day and night falling for addressed priest and prophet and the destruction of a mother figure.
Read It With
- Hosea 4:4-10
Read Hosea 4:5 with 4:4-10. This verse announces day and night falling for addressed priest and prophet and the destruction of a mother figure. The complete unit establishes this movement: Priests and people fall together because knowledge and instruction are rejected, office and children face judgment, increased status feeds increased sin, and appetite remains unsatisfied.
Why It Needs Context
Read this line with Hosea 4:4-10. The surrounding verses supply the complete prophetic movement summarized here: Priests and people fall together because knowledge and instruction are rejected, office and children face judgment, increased status feeds increased sin, and appetite remains unsatisfied.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Hosea 4:4-10 — Priests Who Reject Knowledge Feed on the People's WrongSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Hosea 4:4-10, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Hosea
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew, morphology, syntax, names, wordplay, repetitions, and the base text for translation questions.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Hos.xml, 4:4-10
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