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.
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.
- BSB 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.
- 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.
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Cross-references · 24
- Luke 12:2For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.
- Amos 8:7The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
- Jer 14:10Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
- Jer 2:19Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
- Ps 90:8Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
- Jer 4:18Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.
- Ps 9:16The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
- 1 Cor 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
- Ps 25:7Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness’ sake, O LORD.
- Isa 5:12And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
- Heb 4:13Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
- Jer 32:19Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
- Hos 9:9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
- Jer 16:17For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
- Ps 50:22Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
- Job 20:11–29His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
- Hos 8:13They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
- Job 34:21For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
- Prov 5:21–22For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
- Isa 1:3The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
- Num 32:23But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.
- Deut 32:29O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
- Isa 44:19And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
- Isa 26:16LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
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