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Hosea 7:2
But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses the people of Israel, specifically Ephraim and Samaria, during a period of exposed iniquity and social breakdown where deceit and violence are rampant. He speaks to them as their healer who simultaneously observes their unrepentant condition.
The words — The text highlights זָכָ֑רְתִּי (za.Kha.re.ti), meaning "I remember," and סְבָב֣וּ/ם (se.va.Vu/m), meaning "they have surrounded them." These terms establish that God's awareness of their evil is active and inescapable.
The thread — This theme of divine observation and inescapable accountability recurs in Luke 12:2, where nothing concealed remains hidden, and Jeremiah 2:19, where evil disciplines the people. Jeremiah 14:10 extends this by noting their unrestrained wandering despite God's knowledge.
Why it lands — The text demands acknowledgment that God's memory of sin is immediate and that human actions remain fully visible to Him. It requires readers to abandon self-deception and recognize that accountability operates independently of human awareness.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Luke 12:2 There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, and nothing hidden that will not be made known.
- Jeremiah 2:19 Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
- Jeremiah 14:10 This is what the LORD says about this people: “Truly they love to wander; they have not restrained their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their iniquity and punish them for their sins.”
- Amos 8:7 The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.
- Psalms 90:8 You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
- Psalms 9:16 The LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah
- Psalms 25:7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellious acts; remember me according to Your loving devotion, because of Your goodness, O LORD.
- Isaiah 5:12 At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.
- Jeremiah 4:18 “Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”
- Jeremiah 16:17 For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.