INIQUITY UNCOVERED
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. Hos. 7:2
they
considered not... But Israel continued to sin and did not remember
that her wicked deeds were before His face (Eze. 8:12). The
omniscient God is aware of everything that people do.
now their own... The heart of man is what he is. It is desperately wicked, or it is stayed upon God. In the case of those of Israel, they were desperately wicked. Their sins are the very things that cause this terrible judgment to come upon them.
And they never think in their hearts that all their evil is recorded by Me.
This evil doing witnessed against them, Hos. 7:2. Their passions did not need incitement, just as an oven retains its heat without the baker’s continued attention.
To make matters worse, they disregarded God’s moral character by failing to realize that He was taking careful notice of their sin (cf. Psm. 50:16-21). Therefore, like a wall their sins had completely surrounded (did engulf) them, making repentance improbable. (The Heb. word for their sins is trans. their deeds in Hos. 5:4.)
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