Hosea 5:5

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Summary

And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.

The pride

Isaiah 28:1

Testify

Luke 19:22

Fall in

Judah

Amos 2:4

Bible References

The pride

The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven't returned to Yahweh their God, nor sought him, for all this.

There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.

The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

All the people will know, including Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart,

Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!

Testify

Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don't see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.

For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:

Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name's sake, Yahweh; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.

Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.

"He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn't lay down, and reaping that which I didn't sow.

Fall in

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

Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.

The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

for a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

"The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more. She is cast down on her land; there is no one to raise her up."

Judah

For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.

For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses."

Also Judah didn't keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.

You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore will I give her cup into your hand.

Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have rejected Yahweh's law, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked;