Book of Hosea Chapter 5 Vs. 5

 Punishment Coming for Israel and Judah

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. Hos. 5:5

pride of Israel... Israel’s pride in idolatry provided self-incrimination (compare 7:10). By Israel’s pride many understand God. But the term is used too opprobriously by Amos to allow us to agree to this. The phrase must mean that Israel’s arrogance, or her proud prosperity, by the wounds which it feels in this time of national decay, shall itself testify against the people-a profound ethical symptom to which we shall return when treating of Repentance. Yet the verse may be rendered in harmony with the context: "the pride of Israel shall be humbled to his face.

The words Ephraim and Israel are interchangeable here.

God had blessed Israel and Judah above other nations. Instead of this humbling them, they had become very proud, and thought themselves better than others.

fall in their... They had become so proud, they believed they could do anything, and God would still bless them. They had brazenly worshiped false gods. They thought they were above sin.

The nation’s own arrogance served as a legal witness (testifies; cf. the same expression in 1Sa. 12:3; 2Sa. 1:16) to its guilt and, in accordance with the famous proverb (Pro. 16:18), had led to its fall (cf. stumble in Hos. 4:5). Judah had followed Israel’s example and had come to mortal ruin as well.