Hosea 12:10

‘I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by the ministry of the prophets have I used illustrations.'

He reminded them also that their situation did not arise out of the fact that He had failed to warn them previously. He had spoken to their prophets, He had multiplied visions to them, and He had spoken in many illustrations and parables. Thus they had no excuse for their failure to listen. They had brought what was coming on themselves. Note how this is partly His verdict on Hosea 12:8, something which will be exemplified in Hosea 12:11. His implied question was, ‘How could they then possibly have been so blind?