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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.
Hosea 7:2 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB 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.
  • KJV 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.
  • NKJV They do not consider in their hearts That I remember all their wickedness; Now their own deeds have surrounded them; They are before My face.
  • NASB And they do not consider in their hearts That I remember all their wickedness. Now their deeds surround them; They are before My face.
  • NLT Its people don’t realize that I am watching them. Their sinful deeds are all around them, and I see them all.

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Quick answer

The people forget that God remembers all their wickedness; their deeds now surround them and stand openly before Him.

Overview

Israel sins as though God neither sees nor recalls, but their evil deeds encircle them and remain ever before His face. This is a sobering reminder that nothing is hidden from God and that unrepented sin accumulates as evidence against the sinner. It magnifies the mercy of the gospel, where God promises to remember the sins of His people no more because Christ has borne them.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 24

  • Luke 12:2There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, and nothing hidden that will not be made known.
  • Amos 8:7The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.
  • Jer 14:10This 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 guilt and call their sins to account.”
  • Jer 2:19Your 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.
  • Ps 90:8You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
  • Jer 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!”
  • Ps 9:16The LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah
  • 1 Cor 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.
  • Ps 25:7Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellious acts; remember me according to Your loving devotion, because of Your goodness, O LORD.
  • Isa 5:12At 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.
  • Heb 4:13Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
  • Jer 32:19the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
  • Hos 9:9They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.
  • Jer 16:17For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.
  • Ps 50:22Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
  • Job 20:11–29The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.
  • Hos 8:13Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.
  • Job 34:21For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees his every step.
  • Prov 5:21–22For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
  • Isa 1:3The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
  • Num 32:23But if you do not do this, you will certainly sin against the LORD—and be assured that your sin will find you out.
  • Deut 32:29If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
  • Isa 44:19And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”
  • Isa 26:16O LORD, they sought You in their distress; when You disciplined them, they poured out a quiet prayer.

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Christ at the center

God's relentless love for an unfaithful bride dramatizes the gospel: 'Out of Egypt I called my son' is fulfilled in Jesus, who redeems an adulterous people at his own cost.

How Hosea 7:2 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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