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yet they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him, for all this.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/hosea/7.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Israel’s arrogance testifies against them, yet they do not return to the LORD their God; despite all this, they do not seek Him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/hosea/7.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/hosea/7.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />And the pride of Israel testifies to his face, But they do not return to the LORD their God, Nor seek Him for all this.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/hosea/7.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Though the pride of Israel testifies against him, Yet they have not returned to the LORD their God, Nor have they sought Him, despite all this.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/hosea/7.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Though the pride of Israel testifies against him, Yet they have not returned to the LORD their God, Nor have they sought Him, for all this.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/hosea/7.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Though the pride of Israel testifies against him, Yet they have neither returned to the LORD their God, Nor have they sought Him, for all this.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/hosea/7.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />So the pride of Israel answers against him, Yet they have not returned to Yahweh their God, Nor have they sought Him, for all this.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/hosea/7.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Though the pride of Israel testifies against him, Yet they do not return [in repentance] to the LORD their God, Nor seek <i>nor</i> search for <i>nor</i> desire Him [as essential] in spite of all this.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/hosea/7.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Israel’s arrogance testifies against them, yet they do not return to the LORD their God, and for all this, they do not seek him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/hosea/7.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Israel&#8217s arrogance testifies against them, yet they do not return to Yahweh their God, and for all this, they do not seek Him. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/hosea/7.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: yet they have not returned unto Jehovah their God, nor sought him, for all this.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/hosea/7.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />I am the LORD, their God, but in all of their troubles their pride keeps them from returning to me. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/hosea/7.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: yet they have not returned unto the LORD their God, nor sought him, for all this.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/hosea/7.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Israel, your arrogance testifies against you, but even after all this, you don't turn to the LORD your God or look to him for help.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/hosea/7.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />The arrogance of the people of Israel cries out against them. In spite of everything that has happened, they have not returned to me, the LORD their God. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/hosea/7.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Israel's arrogance testifies against him; but they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him in all of this.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/hosea/7.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Israel?s arrogance testifies against them, yet they do not return to the LORD their God; despite all this, they do not seek Him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/hosea/7.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />The arrogance of Israel testifies against him, yet they refuse to return to the LORD their God! In spite of all this they refuse to seek him! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/hosea/7.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven't returned to the LORD their God, nor sought him, for all this.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/hosea/7.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/hosea/7.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven’t returned to Yahweh their God, nor sought him, for all this. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/hosea/7.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And the excellence of Israel has been humbled to his face, "" And they have not turned back to their God YHWH, "" Nor have they sought Him for all this.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/hosea/7.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And humbled hath been the excellency of Israel to his face, And they have not turned back unto Jehovah their God, Nor have they sought Him for all this.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/hosea/7.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And the pride of Israel was humbled in his face: and they turned not back to Jehovah their God. And sought him not in all this.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/hosea/7.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And the pride of Israel shall be humbled before his face: and they have not returned to the Lord their God, nor have they sought him in all these. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/hosea/7.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />And the pride of Israel will be brought low before his face, for they have not returned to the Lord their God, nor have they sought him in all of this.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/hosea/7.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />The arrogance of Israel bears witness against him; yet they do not return to the LORD, their God, nor seek him, despite all this. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/hosea/7.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Israel’s pride testifies against him; yet they do not return to the LORD their God, or seek him, for all this.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/hosea/7.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And the pride of Israel has been humbled in his presence; and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/hosea/7.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And the honor of Israel was laid low before him and they did not turn to LORD JEHOVAH their God, and they did not look for him<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/hosea/7.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face; But they have not returned unto the LORD their God, Nor sought Him, for all this.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/hosea/7.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And the pride of Israel shall be brought down before his face: yet they have not returned to the Lord their God, neither have they diligently sought him for all this.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/7-10.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xpPG1oLnpGk?start=1039" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/hosea/7.htm">Ephraim's Iniquity</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">9</span>Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know. <span class="reftext">10</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">Israel’s</a> <a href="/hebrew/1347.htm" title="1347: ḡə·’ō·wn- (N-msc) -- Arrogance, majesty, ornament. From ga'ah; the same as ga'avah.">arrogance</a> <a href="/hebrew/6030.htm" title="6030: wə·‘ā·nāh (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3ms) -- To answer, respond.">testifies</a> <a href="/hebrew/6440.htm" title="6440: bə·p̄ā·nāw (Prep-b:: N-cpc:: 3ms) -- Face, faces. Plural of an unused noun; the face; used in a great variety of applications; also as a preposition.">against them,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: wə·lō- (Conj-w:: Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">yet they do not</a> <a href="/hebrew/7725.htm" title="7725: šā·ḇū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- A primitive root; to turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively; generally to retreat; often adverbial, again.">return</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’el- (Prep) -- To, into, towards. ">to</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">the LORD</a> <a href="/hebrew/430.htm" title="430: ’ĕ·lō·hê·hem (N-mpc:: 3mp) -- Plural of 'elowahh; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used of the supreme God">their God;</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: bə·ḵāl (Prep-b:: N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">despite all</a> <a href="/hebrew/2063.htm" title="2063: zōṯ (Pro-fs) -- Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that. Irregular feminine of zeh; this.">this,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: wə·lō (Conj-w:: Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">they do not</a> <a href="/hebrew/1245.htm" title="1245: ḇiq·šu·hū (V-Piel-Perf-3cp:: 3ms) -- To seek. A primitive root; to search out; by implication, to strive after.">seek Him.</a> </span><span class="reftext">11</span>So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove—calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/3-3.htm">Jeremiah 3:3</a></span><br />Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/9-13.htm">Isaiah 9:13</a></span><br />But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/5-3.htm">Jeremiah 5:3</a></span><br />O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/31-1.htm">Isaiah 31:1</a></span><br />Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/8-5.htm">Jeremiah 8:5-6</a></span><br />Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return. / I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/1-4.htm">Isaiah 1:4</a></span><br />Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/2-19.htm">Jeremiah 2:19</a></span><br />Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/17-10.htm">Isaiah 17:10</a></span><br />For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/4-22.htm">Jeremiah 4:22</a></span><br />“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/57-11.htm">Isaiah 57:11</a></span><br />Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lied and failed to remember Me or take this to heart? Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear Me?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/6-15.htm">Jeremiah 6:15</a></span><br />Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse,” says the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/42-25.htm">Isaiah 42:25</a></span><br />So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/14-10.htm">Jeremiah 14:10</a></span><br />This is what the LORD says about this people: “Truly they love to wander; they have not restrained their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their iniquity and punish them for their sins.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/29-13.htm">Isaiah 29:13</a></span><br />Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/30-14.htm">Jeremiah 30:14</a></span><br />All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And the pride of Israel testifies to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.</p><p class="hdg">the pride.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/5-5.htm">Hosea 5:5</a></b></br> 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.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/3-3.htm">Jeremiah 3:3</a></b></br> Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.</p><p class="hdg">and they.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/7-7.htm">Hosea 7:7</a></b></br> They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: <i>there is</i> none among them that calleth unto me.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/6-1.htm">Hosea 6:1</a></b></br> Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/proverbs/27-22.htm">Proverbs 27:22</a></b></br> Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, <i>yet</i> will not his foolishness depart from him.</p><p class="hdg">nor.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/10-4.htm">Psalm 10:4</a></b></br> The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek <i>after God</i>: God <i>is</i> not in all his thoughts.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/14-2.htm">Psalm 14:2</a></b></br> The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, <i>and</i> seek God.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/53-2.htm">Psalm 53:2</a></b></br> God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were <i>any</i> that did understand, that did seek God.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/hosea/5-5.htm">Arrogance</a> <a href="/ezekiel/36-5.htm">Despite</a> <a href="/ezekiel/33-28.htm">Excellency</a> <a href="/hosea/7-2.htm">Face</a> <a href="/hosea/5-5.htm">Gives</a> <a href="/hosea/5-5.htm">Humbled</a> <a href="/hosea/7-1.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/hosea/5-5.htm">Israel's</a> <a href="/hosea/7-5.htm">Pride</a> <a href="/hosea/5-15.htm">Search</a> <a href="/hosea/5-15.htm">Seek</a> <a href="/hosea/5-15.htm">Sought</a> <a href="/hosea/5-5.htm">Testifies</a> <a href="/job/29-11.htm">Testifieth</a> <a href="/hosea/5-5.htm">Testify</a> <a href="/hosea/7-8.htm">Turned</a> <a href="/jeremiah/32-44.htm">Witnesses</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/amos/6-8.htm">Arrogance</a> <a href="/zephaniah/3-7.htm">Despite</a> <a href="/amos/6-8.htm">Excellency</a> <a href="/hosea/10-7.htm">Face</a> <a href="/hosea/8-13.htm">Gives</a> <a href="/matthew/23-12.htm">Humbled</a> <a href="/hosea/8-2.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/amos/3-14.htm">Israel's</a> <a href="/hosea/13-6.htm">Pride</a> <a href="/amos/8-12.htm">Search</a> <a href="/hosea/10-12.htm">Seek</a> <a href="/hosea/12-4.htm">Sought</a> <a href="/john/1-15.htm">Testifies</a> <a href="/john/3-32.htm">Testifieth</a> <a href="/amos/3-13.htm">Testify</a> <a href="/hosea/7-14.htm">Turned</a> <a href="/matthew/10-18.htm">Witnesses</a><div class="vheading2">Hosea 7</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/7-1.htm">A reproof of manifold sins.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">11. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/7-11.htm">God's wrath against them for their hypocrisy.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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In the biblical context, arrogance often leads to a departure from God's ways (<a href="/proverbs/16-18.htm">Proverbs 16:18</a>). Israel's arrogance is a recurring theme in the prophetic books, where it is seen as a barrier to repentance and restoration. The testimony against them is not just from external observers but is evident in their own behavior and the consequences they face. This pride is contrasted with the humility required to seek God (<a href="/micah/6-8.htm">Micah 6:8</a>).<p><b>yet they do not return to the LORD their God</b><br>Despite the clear evidence of their wrongdoing and the consequences they face, Israel fails to repent and return to God. The call to return to the LORD is a central theme in the prophetic literature, emphasizing God's desire for reconciliation and restoration (<a href="/joel/2-12.htm">Joel 2:12-13</a>). The historical context shows that Israel often turned to foreign alliances and idols instead of seeking God, which led to their downfall. This failure to return is a rejection of the covenant relationship established at Sinai (<a href="/exodus/19-5.htm">Exodus 19:5-6</a>).<p><b>despite all this, they do not seek Him</b><br>The phrase underscores Israel's persistent refusal to seek God, even in the face of judgment and calamity. Seeking God involves a wholehearted pursuit of His will and presence (<a href="/jeremiah/29-13.htm">Jeremiah 29:13</a>). The cultural context of the time included various religious practices and deities, which often distracted Israel from exclusive worship of Yahweh. This lack of seeking is a spiritual blindness and stubbornness that prevents them from experiencing God's mercy and deliverance. The call to seek God is echoed in the New Testament, where Jesus invites all to seek and find (<a href="/matthew/7-7.htm">Matthew 7:7-8</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a></b><br>The Northern Kingdom, often referred to as Ephraim in Hosea, representing the ten tribes that split from Judah. Known for its idolatry and political alliances with foreign nations.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/h/hosea.htm">Hosea</a></b><br>A prophet called by God to deliver messages of warning and hope to Israel. His life and marriage serve as a metaphor for God's relationship with Israel.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_lord.htm">The LORD (Yahweh)</a></b><br>The covenant God of Israel, who desires a faithful relationship with His people and calls them to repentance.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/a/arrogance.htm">Arrogance</a></b><br>The pride and self-reliance of Israel, which leads them away from seeking God and acknowledging their need for His guidance.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/r/repentance.htm">Repentance</a></b><br>The act of turning back to God, which Israel fails to do despite their circumstances and God's calls through the prophets.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_arrogance.htm">The Danger of Arrogance</a></b><br>Arrogance blinds us to our need for God. Like Israel, we can become self-reliant and ignore God's call to repentance.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_call_to_return.htm">The Call to Return</a></b><br>God desires a relationship with us. Despite our failures, He continually calls us to return to Him with a sincere heart.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_ignoring_god.htm">The Consequences of Ignoring God</a></b><br>Ignoring God's call leads to spiritual decline. Israel's history shows that turning away from God results in judgment and loss.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/seeking_god_in_times_of_trouble.htm">Seeking God in Times of Trouble</a></b><br>In times of difficulty, our first response should be to seek God. Israel's failure to do so serves as a warning for us to prioritize our relationship with Him.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/repentance_as_a_daily_practice.htm">Repentance as a Daily Practice</a></b><br>Repentance should be a regular part of our spiritual life, not just a response to crisis. It involves a genuine turning back to God and aligning our lives with His will.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_hosea_7.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Hosea 7</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what's_the_meaning_of_'the_true_vine'.htm">What is the meaning of 'The True Vine'?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_are_sacred_stones_in_the_bible.htm">What does the Bible say about sacred stones?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/hosea_5_7__proof_of_israel's_unfaithfulness.htm">Hosea 5:7 - What proof exists that Israel literally bore 'illegitimate children' due to religious unfaithfulness rather than political alliances?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/bible_books'_order.htm">What is the order of the Bible's books?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/hosea/7.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(10) See Note on <a href="/hosea/5-5.htm" title="And the pride of Israel does testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity: Judah also shall fall with them.">Hosea 5:5</a>.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/hosea/7.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 10.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">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</span> (<span class="accented">amid all this</span>). If with Keil and others <p><span class="note_emph">(1)</span> we understand "the pride of Israel" to mean Jehovah the glory of Israel, and take the verb in the sense of "testify," the meaning will be that Jehovah bore witness to the face of Israel by the weakening and wasting of their kingdom, as portrayed in the preceding verse. We prefer <p><span class="note_emph">(2)</span> to understand "the pride of Israel" in the souse of "the haughtiness" of Israel, and the verb in the sense of "being humbled," as at <a href="/hosea/5-5.htm">Hosea 5:5</a>. The real meaning, then, is expressed in the following rendering: <span class="accented">And the haughtiness of Israel shall be humbled to his face</span>. This humiliation is the effect of the wasting mentioned in the preceding verse; while the evidence of their humiliation is specified in the succeeding verse by their resorting to Egypt and repairing to Assyria from a consciousness of their helplessness. This rendering is countenanced by the LXX., both here and at <a href="/hosea/5-5.htm">Hosea 5:5</a>; while Rashi says, "The verb <span class="hebrew">עגה</span> has the meaning of "humiliation." <span class="accented">For all this</span>. This emphasizes the obstinate blindness and perverseness of Ephraim, when, amid all the calamities and miseries of the kingdom both within and without, they turned not to Jehovah to solicit help and deliverance, but concluded treaties or made alliances with foreign nations in hope of being lifted up out of their national impotence. On this Aben Ezra makes the judicious remark: "They turned not to Jehovah as paupers who have nothing more to give foreign nations that they may help them." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/hosea/7-10.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Israel’s</span><br /><span class="heb">יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל</span> <span class="translit">(yiś·rā·’êl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> </span><span class="str2">Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc</span><br /><br /><span class="word">arrogance</span><br /><span class="heb">גְאֽוֹן־</span> <span class="translit">(ḡə·’ō·wn-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1347.htm">Strong's 1347: </a> </span><span class="str2">Arrogance, majesty, ornament</span><br /><br /><span class="word">testifies</span><br /><span class="heb">וְעָנָ֥ה</span> <span class="translit">(wə·‘ā·nāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6030.htm">Strong's 6030: </a> </span><span class="str2">To answer, respond</span><br /><br /><span class="word">against them,</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּפָנָ֑יו</span> <span class="translit">(bə·p̄ā·nāw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - common plural construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6440.htm">Strong's 6440: </a> </span><span class="str2">The face</span><br /><br /><span class="word">yet they do not</span><br /><span class="heb">וְלֹֽא־</span> <span class="translit">(wə·lō-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><br /><span class="word">return</span><br /><span class="heb">שָׁ֙בוּ֙</span> <span class="translit">(šā·ḇū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7725.htm">Strong's 7725: </a> </span><span class="str2">To turn back, in, to retreat, again</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to</span><br /><span class="heb">אֶל־</span> <span class="translit">(’el-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> </span><span class="str2">Near, with, among, to</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the LORD</span><br /><span class="heb">יְהוָ֣ה</span> <span class="translit">(Yah·weh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> </span><span class="str2">LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">their God;</span><br /><span class="heb">אֱלֹֽהֵיהֶ֔ם</span> <span class="translit">(’ĕ·lō·hê·hem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_430.htm">Strong's 430: </a> </span><span class="str2">gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative</span><br /><br /><span class="word">despite all</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּכָל־</span> <span class="translit">(bə·ḵāl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">this,</span><br /><span class="heb">זֹֽאת׃</span> <span class="translit">(zōṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Pronoun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2063.htm">Strong's 2063: </a> </span><span class="str2">Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that, </span><br /><br /><span class="word">they do not</span><br /><span class="heb">וְלֹ֥א</span> <span class="translit">(wə·lō)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><br /><span class="word">seek Him.</span><br /><span class="heb">בִקְשֻׁ֖הוּ</span> <span class="translit">(ḇiq·šu·hū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1245.htm">Strong's 1245: </a> </span><span class="str2">To search out, to strive after</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/hosea/7-10.htm">Hosea 7:10 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/hosea/7-10.htm">Hosea 7:10 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/hosea/7-10.htm">Hosea 7:10 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/hosea/7-10.htm">Hosea 7:10 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/hosea/7-10.htm">Hosea 7:10 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/hosea/7-10.htm">Hosea 7:10 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/hosea/7-10.htm">Hosea 7:10 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/hosea/7-10.htm">Hosea 7:10 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/hosea/7-10.htm">Hosea 7:10 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/hosea/7-10.htm">Hosea 7:10 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/hosea/7-10.htm">OT Prophets: Hosea 7:10 The pride of Israel testifies to his (Ho Hs Hos.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/hosea/7-9.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Hosea 7:9"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Hosea 7:9" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/hosea/7-11.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Hosea 7:11"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Hosea 7:11" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>