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You shall stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with you in the night; and I will destroy your mother.
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Inescapable Judgment
Commentators explain that the judgment described is total and inescapable. The imagery of stumbling 'in the day' and 'in the night' signifies that calamity will be continuous, successive, and will strike when least expected—even in the 'day' of apparent peace and prosperity. No one, from the individual to the prophet, will escape.
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Hosea
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Therefore shalt thou fall - The two parts of the verse complete each other. “By day and by night they will fall, people and prophet…
19th Century
Anglican
The priest’s function is discharged in the day, and the prophet dreams in the night. Both will totter to their fall.
Your mother—
16th Century
Protestant
The connecting word is to be understood here as an inferential one, meaning, Therefore, you shall fall. Here God denounces vengeance on st…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Therefore you shall fall in the day Either, O you people, everyone of you, being so refractory and incorrigible; or,…
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 ([Reference …