Hosea 5 · Verse 5

Hosea 5:5

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.
Hosea 5:5, King James Version

Hosea 5:5 in other translations

BSBIsrael’s arrogance testifies against them; Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; even Judah stumbles with them.
WEBThe pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them.
ASVAnd the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity; Judah also shall stumble with them.
YLTAnd humbled hath been the excellency of Israel to his face, And Israel and Ephraim stumble by their iniquity, Stumbled also hath Judah with them.
DARBYAnd Israel's pride doth testify to his face; and Israel and Ephraim shall fall by their iniquity: Judah also shall fall with them.
BBEAnd the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; and Ephraim will have a fall through his sins, and the fall of Judah will be the same as theirs.
WebsterAnd the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.

What does Hosea 5:5 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
5. the pride of Israel--wherewith they reject the warnings of God's prophets (Ho 5:2), and prefer their idols to God (Ho 7:10; Jr 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 Is 3:9. Judah ... shall fall with them--This prophecy is later than Ho 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.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 5 The pride of Israel doth testify to his face - The effrontery with which they practise idolatry manifests, not only their insolence, but the deep depravity of their heart; but their pride and arrogance shall be humbled.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Hosea 5:1-7

The Divine judgments against Israel. (Hos. 5:1-7) Approaching desolations threatened. (Hos. 5:8-15) Verses 1-7 The piercing eye of God saw secret liking and disposition to sin, the love the house of Israel had to their sins, and the dominion their sins had over them. Pride makes men obstinate in other sins. And as Judah was treading in the same steps, they would fall with Israel. By dealing treacherously with the…

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Hosea 5:5 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְעָנָ֥הve.'a.Nahand it testifiesH6030
גְאֽוֹן\־ge.'on-[the] pride ofH1347
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478
בְּפָנָ֑יוbe.fa.Navin face itsH6440
וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֣לve.Yis.ra.'Eland IsraelH3478
וְאֶפְרַ֗יִםve.'ef.Ra.yimand EphraimH669
יִכָּֽשְׁלוּ֙yi.ka.she.Luthey will stumbleH3782
בַּעֲוֹנָ֔םba.'a.vo.Namon iniquity theirH5771
כָּשַׁ֥לka.Shalit will stumbleH3782
גַּם\־gam-alsoH1571
יְהוּדָ֖הye.hu.DahJudahH3063
עִמָּֽם\׃'i.Mamwith themH5973

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Hosea 5:5

  • Hosea 7:10

    And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him for all this.

  • Luke 19:22

    And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:

  • Amos 5:2

    The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

  • Proverbs 24:16

    For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

  • Ezekiel 23:31-35

    Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand. Thus saith the Lord God; Thou shalt drink of thy sister’s cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much. Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria. Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God. …

  • Matthew 23:31

    Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

  • Hosea 8:14

    For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

  • Hosea 4:5

    Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.

  • Isaiah 9:9-10

    And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart, The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

  • 2 Kings 17:19-20

    Also Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. And the Lord rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

  • Isaiah 44:9

    They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

  • Proverbs 30:13

    There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the pride.
7:10; Pr 30:13; Isa 3:9; 9:9,10; 28:1-3
testify.
Isa 44:9; 59:12; Jer 14:7; Mt 23:31; Lu 19:22
fall in.
4:5; 14:1; Pr 11:5,21; 14:32; 24:16; Am 5:2
Judah.
14; 8:14; 2Ki 17:19,20; Eze 23:31-35; Am 2:4,5

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Context

  • Hosea 5:4

    They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.

  • Hosea 5:5

    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.

  • Hosea 5:6

    They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the Lord; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.

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Hosea 5:5 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y la soberbia de Israel le desmentirá en su cara: é Israel y Ephraim tropezarán en su pecado: tropezará también Judá con ellos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et l’orgueil d’Israël témoigne en face contre lui; et Israël et Éphraïm tomberont par leur iniquité; Juda aussi tombera avec eux.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und die Hoffart Israels zeugt ihm ins Angesicht, und Israel und Ephraim werden fallen durch ihre Ungerechtigkeit auch Juda fällt mit ihnen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et respondebit arrogantia Israël in facie ejus, et Israël et Ephraim ruent in iniquitate sua: ruet etiam Judas cum eis.