Hosea 7:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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.

And they consider not in their hearts - literally, say not to, etc. (Psalms 14:1). The voice of conscience no longer pleads in the hardened sinner's heart: the man no longer communes seriously with his own heart.

That I remember all their wickedness - and will punish it.

Now - while they are so reckless as not to "consider in their hearts" - at this very moment. Now - while they are so reckless as not to "consider in their hearts" - at this very moment.

Now their own doings have beset them about - as so many witnesses against them (Psalms 9:16; Proverbs 5:22, His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins").

They are before my face - (Psalms 90:8, "Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance").

Hosea 7:2

2 And they considerb not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.