Hosea 7:10

‘And the pride of Israel testifies to his face,

Yet they have not returned to YHWH their God,

Nor sought him, for all this.'

But Israel are so full of false pride and arrogance that they give evidence before Him (or before themselves) of what they have done (compare Hosea 5:5), seemingly without conscience. They are openly brazen about their godless ritual, even flaunting it in front of Him. Yet in spite of all that has happened they have not returned to YHWH ‘their God', nor have they sought His face.

Others see ‘the Pride of Israel' as referring to God as the only One of whom Israel could be proud, thus paralleling ‘YHWH their God'. The idea is then that they have not listened to the One of Whom they should have been proud. But Hosea 5:5 tends in our view to favour seeing the reference as being to Israel's inordinate pride.

Note the emphasis on ‘their God'. Although they would not recognise the fact, He was their God, and any other was an intruder. (And it was because He was their God that He would one day restore them. But that would be a long way ahead).