Cross references

Hosea 4:5

You will stumble by day,

and the prophet will stumble with you by night;

so I will destroy your mother—

Hosea 4:5 BSB

Hosea 4:5 has 18 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Jeremiah 15:8 (5 votes) and Hosea 2:2 (5 votes). 10 other verses point back to it. It links with 8 other books, from Psalm 95 to Galatians 4.

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Which verses does Hosea 4:5 point to?

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  1. I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.

  2. Hosea 2:25 votes

    Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.

  3. But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

  4. And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.

  5. But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts. So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day. …

  6. This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

  7. ‘Prepare for battle against her; rise up, let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the daylight is fading; the evening shadows grow long. Rise up, let us attack by night and destroy her fortresses!’”

  8. Their houses will be turned over to others, their fields and wives as well, for I will stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD. “For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit. …

  9. Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit. They dress the wound of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all. …

  10. Therefore this is what the LORD says about the prophets who prophesy in My name: I did not send them, yet they say, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ By sword and famine these very prophets will meet their end! And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own evil upon them.

Which verses point to Hosea 4:5?

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