Hosea 4:5

You stumble day and night, and the false prophets stumble with you; You have destroyed your own people! ¹ 

You stumble day and night, and the prophets stumble with you. So I will destroy your mother—

So you will stumble by day, And the prophet also will stumble with you by night; And I will destroy your mother.

As a sentence for your crimes, you will stumble in broad daylight, just as you might at night, and so will your false prophets. And I will destroy your mother, Israel.

You stumble around in broad daylight, And then the prophets take over and stumble all night. Your mother is as bad as you.

You will not be able to keep on your feet by day, and by night the prophet will be falling down with you, and I will give your mother to destruction.

You shall stumble by day; the prophet also shall stumble with you by night, and I will destroy your mother.

Therefore you shall stumble in the day; The prophet also shall stumble with you in the night; And I will destroy your mother.

You stumble day and night, and the false prophets stumble with you; You have destroyed your own people! ¹ 

¹ tc The MT reads וְדָמִיתִי אִמֶּךָ (vÿdamiti ’immekha, “and I will destroy your mother”), and is followed by most English versions; however, the text should probably be emended to וְדָמִית עַמֶּךָ (vÿdamit ’ammekha, “and you have destroyed your own people”). The 2nd person masculine singular form וְדָמִית (vÿdamit, “and you have destroyed”) is preserved in several medieval Hebrew mss and reflected in Jerome’s Vulgate. For discussion in favor of the MT reading, see D. Barthélemy, ed., Preliminary and Interim Report on the Hebrew Old Testament Text Project, 5:232.

tn Or “and I will destroy your mother” (so NASB, NRSV).