Hosea 10:9

thou hast sinned The prophet's language is correct from his own point of view. True, Israel as a people took summary vengeance on the Benjamites for the outrage of Gibeah. But the seed of wickedness remained, and developed into evil practices worthy only of the Gibeah of old.

there they stood … did not overtake them The passage is open to various interpretations, but the easiest is as follows, there they stood that the war against the sons of unrighteousness might not overtake them at Gibeah. It is a historic retrospect, with an implied application to the present. Just as the Benjamites offered a stubborn resistance to the onset of the rest of Israel at Gibeah, so the Israelites now persist in their old iniquities, and defy Jehovah to put them down.