Verse 5

You stumble day and night, and the prophet also stumbles with you. So I will destroy your mother.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 15:8 : 8 Their widows have increased to Me more than the sand of the seas. I have brought against them a destroyer at noon, and I have caused anguish and terror to fall upon the city suddenly.
  • Hos 2:2 : 2 The people of Judah and Israel will come together, appoint one leader, and rise up out of the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.
  • Hos 9:7-8 : 7 The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have arrived—let Israel know it! The prophet is called foolish, the inspired man is viewed as insane, because of the magnitude of your sin and great hostility. 8 The watchman of Ephraim is with my God, yet the prophet is ensnared on all his paths, and hostility is in the house of his God.
  • Mic 3:5-7 : 5 This is what the LORD says: "As for the prophets who lead my people astray, they proclaim peace when they have something to eat but prepare for war against those who do not feed them. 6 Therefore night will come over you—without visions; the darkness will fall—without divination. The sun will set for the prophets, and the day will grow dark for them. 7 The seers will be ashamed and the diviners disgraced. They will all cover their faces because there is no answer from God.
  • Zech 11:8 : 8 In one month I disposed of the three shepherds. My soul was impatient with them, and their soul also loathed me.
  • Zech 13:2 : 2 On that day, declares the LORD of hosts, I will remove the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. Moreover, I will eliminate the false prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.
  • Gal 4:26 : 26 But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
  • Jer 23:9 : 9 Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me; all my bones tremble. I am like a drunken man, like one overcome by wine, because of the LORD and His holy words.
  • Jer 50:12 : 12 your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, she will become the least of the nations—a wilderness, a dry and arid land.
  • Ezek 13:9-9 : 9 My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will not belong to the council of my people, nor be recorded in the register of the house of Israel, nor enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD. 10 Because they have misled my people by saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and because when a flimsy wall is built, they plaster it over with whitewash, 11 say to those who plaster it with whitewash that it will fall. There will be a flooding rain, hailstones will fall, and a stormy wind will break it. 12 When the wall falls, people will ask you, ‘Where is the whitewash you applied?’ 13 Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: In my wrath, I will unleash a stormy wind. In my anger, there will be flooding rain, and hailstones in fury will bring about destruction. 14 I will break down the wall that you plastered with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground so that its foundation is exposed. It will collapse, and you will perish within it. Then you will know that I am the LORD. 15 So I will pour out my wrath on the wall and on those who plaster it with whitewash. I will tell you, ‘The wall is gone, and so are those who plastered it,’ 16 along with the prophets of Israel who prophesied concerning Jerusalem and claimed visions of peace for her when there was no peace, declares the Lord GOD.
  • Ezek 14:7-9 : 7 For if any man from the house of Israel or any foreigner living in Israel separates himself from me, sets up idols in his heart, places the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of me, I, the LORD, will answer him myself. 8 I will set my face against that man and make him a sign and a proverb; I will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the LORD. 9 And if the prophet is deceived into giving a message, it is I, the LORD, who have deceived that prophet. I will stretch out my hand against him and destroy him from among my people Israel. 10 They will bear their guilt. The punishment of the inquirer will be the same as that of the prophet.
  • Ezek 16:44-45 : 44 Everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’ 45 You are a true daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children. And you are a sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
  • Isa 9:13-17 : 13 So the LORD will cut off from Israel both head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day. 14 The elders and dignitaries are the head; the prophets who teach lies are the tail. 15 Those who guide this people mislead them, and those who are guided by them are swallowed up. 16 Therefore, the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, nor will he have compassion on their orphans and widows, for everyone is ungodly and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. Yet for all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still stretched out. 17 For wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns. It sets the thickets of the forest ablaze, and they roll upward in columns of smoke.
  • Isa 50:1 : 1 This is what the LORD says: Where is the certificate of divorce for your mother, whom I sent away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Behold, because of your sins, you were sold, and because of your transgressions, your mother was sent away.
  • Jer 6:4-5 : 4 Prepare for war against her! Arise, let us attack at noon! Woe to us, for the day is waning and the shadows of evening are lengthening. 5 Arise, let us attack by night and destroy her fortresses!
  • Jer 6:12-15 : 12 Their houses will be turned over to others, along with their fields and wives. For I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the Lord. 13 For from the least to the greatest, all are greedy for unjust gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit. 14 They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious, saying, 'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace. 15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not even know how to blush. Therefore, they shall fall among those who fall; at the time I punish them, they will stumble,” says the Lord.
  • Jer 8:10-12 : 10 Therefore, I will give their wives to others and their fields to new owners. From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit. 11 They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. ‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace. 12 Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they do not feel any shame. They do not even know how to blush. Therefore, they will fall among the fallen. At the time of their punishment, they will stumble, says the LORD.
  • Jer 14:15-16 : 15 Therefore, this is what the LORD says about the prophets who prophesy in My name, though I did not send them, and who declare, 'No sword or famine will touch this land': By sword and famine, those prophets will meet their end. 16 And the people to whom they are prophesying will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters. I will pour out their wickedness upon them.