And they do not consider in their hearts That I remember all their wickedness. Now their deeds surround them; 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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- Luke 12:2But there is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed, nor hidden, that will not be known.
- Amos 8:7Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their works.
- Jer 14:10Yahweh says to this people, “Even so they have loved to wander. They have not restrained their feet. Therefore Yahweh does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish them for their sins.”
- Jer 2:19“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
- Ps 90:8You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
- Jer 4:18“Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”
- Ps 9:16Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
- 1 Cor 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
- Ps 25:7Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.
- Isa 5:12The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
- Heb 4:13There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.
- Jer 32:19great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone 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. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins.
- Jer 16:17For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.
- Ps 50:22“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
- Job 20:11–29His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.
- Hos 8:13As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it; But Yahweh doesn’t accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.
- Job 34:21“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.
- Prov 5:21–22For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.
- Isa 1:3The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know, my people don’t consider.”
- Num 32:23“But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.
- Deut 32:29Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
- Isa 44:19No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, “I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?”
- Isa 26:16Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
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