5 You stumble day and night, and the prophets stumble with you. So I will destroy your mother-
5 You shall stumble by day; the prophet also shall stumble with you by night; and I will destroy your mother.
5 You stumble around in broad daylight, And then the prophets take over and stumble all night. Your mother is as bad as you.
5 Therefore you shall stumble in the day; The prophet also shall stumble with you in the night; And I will destroy your mother.
5 So you will stumble in broad daylight, and your false prophets will fall with you in the night. And I will destroy Israel, your mother.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Hosea 4:5
Commentary on Hosea 4:1-5
(Read Hosea 4:1-5)
Hosea reproves for immorality, as well as idolatry. There was no truth, mercy, or knowledge of God in the land: it was full of murders, 2 Kings 21:16. Therefore calamities were near, which would desolate the country. Our sins, as separate persons, as a family, as a neighbourhood, as a nation, cause the Lord to have a controversy with us; let us submit and humble ourselves before Him, that he may not go on to destroy.