Hosea Chapter 7 verse 2 Holy Bible
And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now have their own doings beset them about; they are before my face.
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And they do not say to themselves that I keep in mind all their sin; now their evil acts come round them on every side; they are before my face.
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And they say not in their hearts [that] I remember all their wickedness: now do their own doings encompass them; they are before my face.
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And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.
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They don't consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.
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And they do not say to their heart, `That' all their evil I have remembered, Now compassed them have their doings, Over-against My face they have been.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - And they consider not in their hearts (margin, say not to their heart) that I remember all their wickedness. Between the common reading libravken and bilravken found in several manuscripts by Kennicott and De Rossi, there is a not unimportant difference. The latter, equivalent to saying "in their heart," which is the usual expression, denotes one's inward thoughts or reasonings with himself; the former, equivalent to saying "to their heart," is an address to, or remonstrance with, the heart with the view of restraining its evil purposes. God's remembrance of wickedness imports its punishment. Now their own doings have beset them about. Their doings (1) have become evident or conspicuous as a robe or garment with which a man is surrounded, or a troop of body-guards placed about him. Or (2) the terrors and penal consequences of their sins have surrounded them like a garment, as we elsewhere read, "He clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment." In this latter sense the figure is rather taken from enemies besieging a town or city, and beleaguering it closely all around, or from lictors, i.e. officers of the law surrounding them, or even witnesses confronting them on every side. Kimchi explains the sense as follows: "Now their evil deeds surround them, which were before my face and were not hidden from me; and, while they receive the punishment, they will remember that 1 know all the whole, and that it is I who return their reward upon their head." They are before my face, in the last clause, has a striking and awe-inspiring parallel in the ninetieth psalm: "Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance." Aben Ezra's exposition is somewhat obscure; it is as follows: "They think that I do not see them, and they do not observe that their actions encircle them, as they are before my face."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) Have beset them about.--The wicked deeds of the nation crowded around them as witnesses to reveal their treason against Jehovah.
