Hosea 7:10

“And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face, etc.] (See Gill on “<280505>Hosea 5:5”); notwithstanding their weak and declining state, they were proud and haughty; entertained a high conceit of themselves, and of their good and safe condition; and behaved insolently towards God, and were not humbled before him for their sins. Their pride was notorious, which they themselves could not deny; they were self-convicted, and selfcondemned: and they do not return to the Lord their God; by acknowledgment of their sins, repentance for them, and reformation from them; and by attendance on his worship, from which they had revolted; so the Targum, “they return not to the worship of the Lord their…”

“Repetition of Hos 5:5. not return to . . . Lord . . . for all this--notwithstanding all their calamities (Isa 9:13).”

“And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face - His pride convicted him. All the afflictions of God humbled him not; yea, they but brought out his pride, which “kept him from acknowledging and repenting of the sins which had brought those evils upon him, and from “turning to God and seeking to Him” for remedy” . People complain of their “fortune” or “fate” or “stars,” and go on the more obstinately, to build up what God destroys, to prop up by human means or human aid what, by God’s providence, is failing; they venture more desperately, in order to recover past losses, until the crash at last becomes hopeless and final. Nor seek Him for all this - God had exhausted all the treasures of His…”

“the pride: Hos 5:5; Jer 3:3 and they: Hos 7:7, Hos 6:1; Pro 27:22; Isa 9:13; Jer 8:5, Jer 8:6, Jer 25:5-7, Jer 35:15-17; Amo 4:6-13; Zac 1:4 nor: Psa 10:4, Psa 14:2, Psa 53:2; Rom 3:11 Hosea 7:11”

“"And the pride of Israel beareth witness to his face, and they are not converted to Jehovah their God, and for all this they seek Him not." The first clause is repeated from Hos 5:5. The testimony which the pride of Israel, i.e., Jehovah, bore to its face, consisted in the weakening and wasting away of the kingdom as described in Hos 7:9. But with all this, they do not turn to the Lord who could save them, but seek help from their natural foes. Hosea 7:11”