Ezechielis 4:5

Nova Vulgata

Et corrues plena die, et corruet etiam propheta tecum nocte; et perdam matrem tuam.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
somnium vidi, quod perterruit me : et cogitationes me� in strato meo, et visiones capitis mei conturbaverunt me.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Et corrues hodie,
et corruet etiam propheta tecum.
Nocte tacere feci matrem tuam.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and the prophet: Hosea 9:7, Hosea 9:8, Isaiah 9:13-17, Jeremiah 6:4, Jeremiah 6:5, Jeremiah 6:12-15, Jeremiah 8:10-12, Jeremiah 14:15, Jeremiah 14:16, Jeremiah 15:8, Jeremiah 23:9, Ezekiel 13:9-16, Ezekiel 14:8-10, Micah 3:5-7, Zechariah 11:8, Zechariah 13:2

destroy: Heb. cut off

thy: Hosea 2:2, Isaiah 50:1, Jeremiah 15:8, Jeremiah 50:12, Ezekiel 16:44, Ezekiel 16:45, Galatians 4:26

Reciprocal: Isaiah 9:14 - will cut Jeremiah 8:12 - therefore Hosea 2:5 - their mother Hosea 4:14 - therefore Hosea 5:5 - fall in Zechariah 11:17 - the sword Malachi 2:12 - the master and the scholar

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore shall thou fall in the day,.... Either, O ye people, everyone of you, being so refractory and incorrigible; or, O thou priest, being as bad as the people; for both, on account of their sins, should fall from their present prosperity and happiness into great evils and calamities; particularly into the hands of their enemies, and be carried captive into another land: and this should be "in the day", or "today" r; immediately, quickly, in a very short time; or in the daytime, openly, publicly, in the sight of all, of all the nations round about, who shall rejoice at it; or in the day of prosperity, while things go well, amidst great plenty of all good things, and when such a fall was least expected:

and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night: or the false prophets that are with you, as the Targum, and so Jarchi; either with you, O people, that dwell with you, teach you, and cause you to err; or with thee, O priest, being of the same family, as the prophets, many of them, were priests; now these should fall likewise into the same calamities, as it was but just they should, being the occasion of them: and this should be in the night; in the night of adversity and affliction, in the common calamity; or in the night of darkness, when they could not see at what they stumbled and fell, and so the more uncomfortable to them; or as the one falls in the day, the other falls in the night; as certainly as the one falls, so shall the other, and that very quickly, immediately, as the night follows the day:

and I will destroy thy mother; either Samaria, the metropolis of the nation; or the whole body of the people, the congregation, as the Targum, and Kimchi, and Ben Melech, being as a mother with respect to individuals; and are threatened with destruction because the corruption was general among prophets, priests, and people, and therefore none could hope to escape.

r היום "hodie", Munster, Montanus, Drusius, Tarnovius, Rivet; "hoc tempore", Pagninus. So Kimchi and Ben Melech.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore shalt thou fall - The two parts of the verse fill up each other. “By day and by night shall they fall, people and prophets together.” Their calamities should come upon them successively, day and night. They should stumble by day, when there is least fear of stumbling John 11:9-10; and night should not by its darkness protect them. Evil should come “at noon-day” Jeremiah 15:8 upon them, seeing it, but unable to repel it; as Isaiah speaks of it as an aggravation of trouble, “thy land strangers devour it in thy presence” Isaiah 1:7; and the false prophets, who saw their visions in the night, should themselves be overwhelmed in the darkness, blinded by moral, perishing in actual, darkness.

And I will destroy thy mother - Individuals are spoken of as the children; the whole nation, as the mother. He denounces then the destruction of all, collectively and individually. They were to be cut off, root and branch. They were to lose their collective existence as a nation; and, lest private persons should flatter themselves with hope of escape, it is said to them, as if one by one, “thou shalt fall.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 4:5. Therefore shalt thou fall in the day — In the most open and public manner, without snare or ambush.

And the prophet also shall fall - in the night — The false prophet, when employed in taking prognostications from stars, meteors, &c.

And I will destroy thy mother. — The metropolis or mother city. Jerusalem or Samaria is meant.