Hosea 5:5

“And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face, etc.] Or, “does” or “shall answer to his face”f103; contradicts him, convicts him, and fills him with shame; the pride of his heart, and of his countenance, and which appears in all his actions, and which is open and manifest to all, shall stare him in the face, and confound him; even all the sinful actions done by him in a proud and haughty manner, in contempt of God and of his laws, shall fly in his face, and fill him with dread and horror. The Targum is, “the glory of Israel shall be humbled, and they seeing [it]:” instead of greatness, glory, and honour, they formerly had, they shall be in a mean low condition, even in their own land,…”

“the pride of Israel--wherewith they reject the warnings of God's prophets (Hos 5:2), and prefer their idols to God (Hos 7:10; Jer 13:17). testify to his face--openly to his face he shall be convicted of the pride which is so palpable in him. Or, "in his face," as in Isa 3:9. Judah . . . shall fall with them--This prophecy is later than Hos 4:15, when Judah had not gone so far in idolatry; now her imitation of Israel's bad example provokes the threat of her being doomed to share in Israel's punishment.”

“And the pride of Israel - Pride was from the first the leading sin of Ephraim. Together with Manasseh, (with whom they made, in some respects, one whole, as “the children of Joseph, Joshua 16:4; Joshua 17:14), they were nearly equal in number to Judah. When numbered in the wilderness, Judah had 74,600 fighting men, Ephraim and Manasseh together 72,700. They speak of themselves as a “great people, forasmuch as the Lord has blessed me hitherto” Joshua 17:14. God having chosen, out of them, the leader under whom He brought Israel into the land of promise, they resented, in the following time of the Judges, any deliverance of the land, in which they were not called to take a part. They rebuked…”

“Doth testify - Is an evident witness against him. Hosea 5:6”

“the pride: Hos 7:10; Pro 30:13; Isa 3:9, Isa 9:9, Isa 9:10, Isa 28:1-3 testify: Isa 44:9, Isa 59:12; Jer 14:7; Mat 23:31; Luk 19:22 fall in: Hos 4:5, Hos 14:1; Pro 11:5, Pro 11:21, Pro 14:32, Pro 24:16; Amo 5:2 Judah: Hos 5:14, Hos 8:14; Kg2 17:19, Kg2 17:20; Eze 23:31-35; Amo 2:4, Amo 2:5 Hosea 5:6”

“"And the pride of Ephraim will testify against its face, and Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their guilt; Judah has also stumbled with them." As the meaning "to answer," to bear witness against a person, is well established in the case of ענה ב (cf. Num 35:30; Deu 19:18, and Isa 3:9), and ענה בפנים also occurs in Job 16:8 in this sense, we must retain the same meaning here, as Jerome and others have done. And there is the more reason for this, because the explanation based upon the lxx, καὶ ταπεινωθήσεται ἡ ὕβρις, "the haughtiness of Israel will be humbled," can hardly be reconciled with בפניו. "The pride of Israel," moreover, is not the haughtiness of Israel, but that of which…”