Hosea 7:2 - Tree of Life Version But they never admit in their heart that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them. They are right before My face. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But they do not consider and say to their minds and hearts that I [earnestly] remember all their wickedness. Now their own doings surround and entangle them; they are before My face. American Standard Version (1901) And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now have their own doings beset them about; they are before my face. Common English Bible But they don’t consider within their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their deeds show who they are, right in front of my face. Catholic Public Domain Version And, so that they may not say in their hearts that I am the one who has called to mind all of their wickedness: now their own inventions have encircled them. These things have happened in my presence. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And lest they may say in their hearts, that I remember all their wickedness: their own devices now have beset them about, they have been done before my face. |
He says in his heart: “God has forgotten. He hides His face—He will never see it.”
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellion. According to Your mercy remember me, for the sake of Your goodness, Adonai.
Now consider this, you who forget God. Or else I will tear you in pieces with no one to rescue you.
The nations sank into the pit they made. The net they hid caught their own foot.
You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its manger, but Israel does not know, My people do not understand.”
Adonai, they sought You in distress, they poured out a whispered prayer when Your discipline was upon them.
No one reflects in his heart, with no knowledge or discernment to say, “I burned half of it in the fire and I also baked bread on its coals. I roasted meat and ate—and then I make the rest of it an abomination? Should I bow before a block of wood?”
Harp and lyre, tambourine and flute, and wine are at their banquets. They do not notice Adonai’s activity nor see the works of His hands.
Thus says Adonai to this people: How they loved to wander, They did not restrain their feet. So Adonai does not accept them. Now will He remember their iniquity, and punish their sins.
For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity concealed from My eyes.
Judah’s sin is written with an iron pen and with a point of a diamond, engraved on the tablet of their heart and on the horns of your altars.
Your own wickedness will rebuke you and your backslidings will chide you. Know then and see how bad and bitter it is for you to forsake Adonai your God. Nor is fear of Me in you.” It is a declaration of the Lord Adonai-Tzva’ot.
Great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
Your conduct and your deeds have brought these things on you. This is your calamity! How bitter it is! How it smites your heart!
“The incense-burning that you offered in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem—you and your fathers, your kings, your officials, and the people of the land—Adonai did remember them, they did come into His heart.
Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim: “Because you have caused your iniquity to be remembered, by exposing your transgressions, so that your sins appear in all your deeds—because you have come to remembrance, you will be seized with the hand.
Ephraim is grazing on wind and pursuing the east wind. All day he multiplies lies and ruin: making a pact with Assyria, while carrying oil to Egypt.
But it will be like people, like kohen. So I will punish them for their ways, and repay them for their deeds.
After two days He will revive us. On the third day He will raise us up, and we will live in His presence.
Sacrifices are gifts for Me— should they sacrifice meat and then eat it? Adonai will not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sin— they will return to Egypt.
“All their wickedness is at Gilgal, for there I despised them. Because of their wicked practices, I will drive them out of My House. I will love them no more. All their princes are rebellious.
They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity, He will punish their sin.
Adonai swore by the Pride of Jacob: “Never will I forget all their deeds!
“Rise, go to the great city Nineveh and call out to her, for their evil has risen before me.”
“But if you don’t do this, behold, you sin against Adonai! Be assured! Your sin will find you out!
There is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, and nothing hidden that will not be made known.
Therefore do not judge anything before the time—wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the things hidden in darkness and also make clear the motives of the hearts. Then the praise for each one will come from God.
“If they were wise, they would discern this, they would understand their hereafter.
No creature is hidden from Him, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.