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Their sins engulf them; they are always before me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/hosea/7.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Its people don’t realize that I am watching them. Their sinful deeds are all around them, and I see them all.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/hosea/7.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />But they do not consider that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/hosea/7.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/hosea/7.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And they consider not in their hearts <i>that</i> I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/hosea/7.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />They do not consider in their hearts <i>That</i> I remember all their wickedness; Now their own deeds have surrounded them; They are before My face.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/hosea/7.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />And they do not consider in their hearts That I remember all their wickedness. Now their deeds surround them; They are before My face.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/hosea/7.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />And they do not consider in their hearts That I remember all their wickedness. Now their deeds are all around them; They are before My face.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/hosea/7.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />And they do not consider in their hearts That I remember all their wickedness. Now their deeds are all around them; They are before My face.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/hosea/7.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />And they do not say to their hearts <i>That</i> I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; They are before My face.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/hosea/7.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />But they do not consider in their hearts (minds) That I remember [always] all their wickedness. Now their deeds surround <i>and</i> entangle them; They are before My face.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/hosea/7.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />But they never consider that I remember all their evil. Now their actions are all around them; they are right in front of my face.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/hosea/7.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />But they never consider that I remember all their evil. Now their sins are all around them; they are right in front of My face. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/hosea/7.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/hosea/7.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />No one realizes that I have seen their sins surround them like a flood. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/hosea/7.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/hosea/7.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />They don't realize that I remember all the evil things they've done. Now their sins surround them. Their sins are in my presence.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/hosea/7.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />It never enters their heads that I will remember all this evil; but their sins surround them, and I cannot avoid seeing them." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/hosea/7.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />It never occurs to them that I remember all their sin. Now their actions have caught up with them, and they have my attention. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/hosea/7.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/hosea/7.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />They do not realize that I remember all of their wicked deeds. Their evil deeds have now surrounded them; their sinful deeds are always before me. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/hosea/7.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />They do not consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/hosea/7.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them around; they are before my face.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/hosea/7.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />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. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/hosea/7.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And they do not say to their heart, "" [That] I have remembered all their evil, "" Now their doings have surrounded them, "" They have been before My face.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/hosea/7.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And they do not say to their heart, That all their evil I have remembered, Now compassed them have their doings, Over-against My face they have been.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/hosea/7.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And they will not say to their heart, I remembered all their evil: now their doings surrounded them; they were before my face.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/hosea/7.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />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. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/hosea/7.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/hosea/7.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Yet they do not call to mind that I remember all their wickedness. Now their crimes surround them, present to my sight. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/hosea/7.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />But they do not consider that I remember all their wickedness. Now their deeds surround them, they are before my face.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/hosea/7.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And they never said in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness; now their own devices have beset them about; they were before my face.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/hosea/7.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And they did not say in their heart that I remember all of their evils, therefore their devices that have been before my face will surround them<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/hosea/7.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And let them not say to their heart-- I remember all their wickedness; Now their own doings have beset them about, They are before My face.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/hosea/7.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />that they may concert together as <i>men</i> singing in their heart: I remember all their wickedness: now have their own counsels compassed them about; they came before my face.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/7-2.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xpPG1oLnpGk?start=966" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/hosea/7.htm">Ephraim's Iniquity</a></span><br><span class="reftext">1</span>When I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim will be exposed, as well as the crimes of Samaria. For they practice deceit and thieves break in; bandits raid in the streets. <span class="reftext">2</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/1077.htm" title="1077: ū·ḇal- (Conj-w:: Adv) -- Not. From balah; properly, a failure; by implication nothing; usually not at all; also lest.">But they fail to</a> <a href="/hebrew/559.htm" title="559: yō·mə·rū (V-Qal-Imperf-3mp) -- To utter, say. A primitive root; to say.">consider</a> <a href="/hebrew/3824.htm" title="3824: lil·ḇā·ḇām (Prep-l:: N-msc:: 3mp) -- Inner man, mind, will, heart. From labab; the heart; used also like leb.">in their hearts</a> <a href="/hebrew/2142.htm" title="2142: zā·ḵā·rə·tî (V-Qal-Perf-1cs) -- Remember. A primitive root; properly, to mark, i.e. To remember; by implication, to mention; also to be male.">that I remember</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: kāl- (N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">all</a> <a href="/hebrew/7451.htm" title="7451: rā·‘ā·ṯām (N-fsc:: 3mp) -- Bad, evil. From ra'a'; bad or evil.">their evil.</a> <a href="/hebrew/6258.htm" title="6258: ‘at·tāh (Adv) -- Now. From eth; at this time, whether adverb, conjunction or expletive.">Now</a> <a href="/hebrew/4611.htm" title="4611: ma·‘al·lê·hem (N-mpc:: 3mp) -- A deed, practice. From alal; an act.">their deeds</a> <a href="/hebrew/5437.htm" title="5437: sə·ḇā·ḇūm (V-Qal-Perf-3cp:: 3mp) -- A primitive root; to revolve, surround, or border; used in various applications, literally and figuratively.">are all around them;</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: hā·yū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">they are</a> <a href="/hebrew/5048.htm" title="5048: ne·ḡeḏ (Prep) -- From nagad; a front, i.e. Part opposite; specifically a counterpart, or mate; usually over against or before.">before</a> <a href="/hebrew/6440.htm" title="6440: pā·nay (N-mpc:: 1cs) -- Face, faces. Plural of an unused noun; the face; used in a great variety of applications; also as a preposition.">My face.</a> </span><span class="reftext">3</span>They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/16-17.htm">Jeremiah 16:17</a></span><br />For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/90-8.htm">Psalm 90:8</a></span><br />You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/5-21.htm">Proverbs 5:21</a></span><br />For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/8-7.htm">Amos 8:7</a></span><br />The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/2-22.htm">Jeremiah 2:22</a></span><br />Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/29-15.htm">Isaiah 29:15</a></span><br />Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/34-21.htm">Job 34:21-22</a></span><br />For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees his every step. / There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/139-1.htm">Psalm 139:1-4</a></span><br />For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me. / You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar. / You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/8-12.htm">Ezekiel 8:12</a></span><br />“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/23-24.htm">Jeremiah 23:24</a></span><br />“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/12-2.htm">Luke 12:2-3</a></span><br />There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, and nothing hidden that will not be made known. / What you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the housetops.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/4-13.htm">Hebrews 4:13</a></span><br />Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/2-16.htm">Romans 2:16</a></span><br />on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Christ Jesus, as proclaimed by my gospel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-5.htm">1 Corinthians 4:5</a></span><br />Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/10-26.htm">Matthew 10:26</a></span><br />So do not be afraid of them. For there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, and nothing hidden that will not be made known.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">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.</p><p class="hdg">consider not in.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/32-29.htm">Deuteronomy 32:29</a></b></br> O that they were wise, <i>that</i> they understood this, <i>that</i> they would consider their latter end!</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/50-22.htm">Psalm 50:22</a></b></br> Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear <i>you</i> in pieces, and <i>there be</i> none to deliver.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/1-3.htm">Isaiah 1:3</a></b></br> The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: <i>but</i> Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.</p><p class="hdg">I remember.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/9-9.htm">Hosea 9:9</a></b></br> They have deeply corrupted <i>themselves</i>, as in the days of Gibeah: <i>therefore</i> he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/25-7.htm">Psalm 25:7</a></b></br> Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/14-10.htm">Jeremiah 14:10</a></b></br> Thus 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.</p><p class="hdg">their own.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/numbers/32-23.htm">Numbers 32:23</a></b></br> But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/job/20-11.htm">Job 20:11-29</a></b></br> His bones are full <i>of the sin</i> of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/9-16.htm">Psalm 9:16</a></b></br> The LORD is known <i>by</i> the judgment <i>which</i> he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.</p><p class="hdg">are before.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/job/34-21.htm">Job 34:21</a></b></br> For his eyes <i>are</i> upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/90-8.htm">Psalm 90:8</a></b></br> Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret <i>sins</i> in the light of thy countenance.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/proverbs/5-21.htm">Proverbs 5:21</a></b></br> For the ways of man <i>are</i> before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/hosea/4-9.htm">Acts</a> <a href="/ezekiel/38-8.htm">Always</a> <a href="/psalms/139-5.htm">Beset</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-5.htm">Compassed</a> <a href="/daniel/10-11.htm">Consider</a> <a href="/hosea/7-1.htm">Deeds</a> <a href="/hosea/5-4.htm">Doings</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-22.htm">Encompass</a> <a href="/psalms/69-15.htm">Engulf</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-42.htm">Engulfed</a> <a href="/hosea/7-1.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/hosea/6-2.htm">Face</a> <a href="/hosea/5-4.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/daniel/11-27.htm">Hearts</a> <a href="/hosea/4-6.htm">Mind</a> <a href="/daniel/10-13.htm">Over-Against</a> <a href="/daniel/2-8.htm">Realize</a> <a href="/daniel/6-15.htm">Remember</a> <a href="/hosea/2-17.htm">Remembered</a> <a href="/hosea/2-6.htm">Round</a> <a href="/hosea/5-5.htm">Sin</a> <a href="/hosea/7-1.htm">Sins</a> <a href="/hosea/5-2.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/hosea/7-1.htm">Wickedness</a> <a href="/hosea/5-4.htm">Works</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/hosea/12-2.htm">Acts</a> <a href="/hosea/12-6.htm">Always</a> <a href="/habakkuk/1-4.htm">Beset</a> <a href="/hosea/11-12.htm">Compassed</a> <a href="/hosea/9-7.htm">Consider</a> <a href="/hosea/7-12.htm">Deeds</a> <a href="/hosea/9-15.htm">Doings</a> <a href="/habakkuk/1-4.htm">Encompass</a> <a href="/matthew/8-24.htm">Engulf</a> <a href="/jonah/2-3.htm">Engulfed</a> <a href="/hosea/7-15.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/hosea/7-10.htm">Face</a> <a href="/hosea/7-6.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/hosea/7-6.htm">Hearts</a> <a href="/hosea/8-13.htm">Mind</a> <a href="/amos/4-3.htm">Over-Against</a> <a href="/hosea/7-9.htm">Realize</a> <a href="/hosea/8-13.htm">Remember</a> <a href="/amos/1-9.htm">Remembered</a> <a href="/joel/3-11.htm">Round</a> <a href="/hosea/7-3.htm">Sin</a> <a href="/hosea/8-13.htm">Sins</a> <a href="/hosea/7-3.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/hosea/7-3.htm">Wickedness</a> <a href="/hosea/12-8.htm">Works</a><div class="vheading2">Hosea 7</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/7-1.htm">A reproof of manifold sins.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">11. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/7-11.htm">God's wrath against them for their hypocrisy.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading"><a href="/study/hosea/7.htm">Berean Study Bible</a></div><b>But they fail to consider</b><br />The Hebrew root for "consider" is "זָכַר" (zakar), which means to remember or to call to mind. In the context of Hosea, this phrase highlights the spiritual blindness and negligence of the Israelites. They are so consumed by their own ways that they do not pause to reflect on their actions or the consequences thereof. This lack of consideration is a recurring theme in the prophetic books, where the people often forget the covenantal relationship with God. The phrase serves as a call to self-examination and awareness of one's spiritual state.<p><b>that I remember</b><br />The word "remember" here is also derived from "זָכַר" (zakar), emphasizing God's omniscience and His active engagement with His people. Unlike the Israelites, who forget, God remembers. This remembrance is not passive; it is a deliberate and active awareness of their deeds. In a conservative Christian perspective, this underscores the belief in God's justice and His role as a righteous judge who holds humanity accountable for their actions.<p><b>all their evil deeds</b><br />The phrase "evil deeds" is translated from the Hebrew "רָעָה" (ra'ah), which refers to wickedness or wrongdoing. This encompasses not only individual sins but also systemic and communal transgressions. Historically, the Israelites were engaged in idolatry, social injustice, and breaking of the covenant, which are the "evil deeds" God remembers. This serves as a warning that no sin is hidden from God, and it calls believers to live righteously, knowing that God sees all.<p><b>Their sins engulf them</b><br />The imagery of being "engulfed" suggests being overwhelmed or surrounded. The Hebrew word "סָבַב" (sabab) can mean to encircle or encompass. This paints a picture of the inescapable nature of sin when it is not confessed and repented. In the historical context of Hosea, the Israelites' persistent sinfulness leads to their downfall and exile. For Christians, this serves as a reminder of the destructive power of sin and the need for repentance and redemption through Christ.<p><b>they are always before Me</b><br />The phrase "always before Me" indicates God's constant awareness and presence. The Hebrew "תָּמִיד" (tamid) means continually or perpetually. This suggests that nothing escapes God's notice, and He is ever-present. In a conservative Christian view, this is both a comfort and a challenge. It reassures believers of God's constant presence and care, while also reminding them of the need to live in a way that honors Him, knowing that their lives are always in His sight.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/hosea/7.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(2) <span class= "bld">Have beset them about.--</span>The wicked deeds of the nation crowded around them as witnesses to reveal their treason against Jehovah.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/hosea/7.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 2.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">And they consider not in their hearts</span> (margin, <span class="accented">say not to their heart</span>) <span class="accented"><span class="cmt_word"></span>that I remember all their wickedness.</span> Between the common reading <span class="accented">libravken</span> and <span class="accented">bilravken</span> found in several manuscripts by Kennicott and De Rossi, there is a not unimportant difference. The latter, equivalent to saying "in their heart," which is the usual expression, denotes one's inward thoughts or reasonings with himself; the former, equivalent to saying "to their heart," is an address to, or remonstrance with, the heart with the view of restraining its evil purposes. God's remembrance of wickedness imports its punishment. Now their own doings have beset them about. Their doings <p><span class="note_emph">(1)</span> have become evident or conspicuous as a robe or garment with which a man is surrounded, or a troop of body-guards placed about him. Or <p><span class="note_emph">(2)</span> the terrors and penal consequences of their sins have surrounded them like a garment, as we elsewhere read, "He clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment." In this latter sense the figure is rather taken from enemies besieging a town or city, and beleaguering it closely all around, or from lictors, <span class="accented">i.e.</span> officers of the law surrounding them, or even witnesses confronting them on every side. Kimchi explains the sense as follows: "Now their evil deeds surround them, which were before my face and were not hidden from me; and, while they receive the punishment, they will remember that 1 know all the whole, and that it is I who return their reward upon their head." <span class="cmt_word">They are before my face</span>, in the last clause, has a striking and awe-inspiring parallel in the ninetieth psalm: "Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance." Aben Ezra's exposition is somewhat obscure; it is as follows: "They think that I do not see them, and they do not observe that their actions encircle them, as they are before my face." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/hosea/7-2.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">But they fail to</span><br /><span class="heb">וּבַל־</span> <span class="translit">(ū·ḇal-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1077.htm">Strong's 1077: </a> </span><span class="str2">A failure, nothing, not at all, lest</span><br /><br /><span class="word">consider</span><br /><span class="heb">יֹֽאמְרוּ֙</span> <span class="translit">(yō·mə·rū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> </span><span class="str2">To utter, say</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in their hearts</span><br /><span class="heb">לִלְבָבָ֔ם</span> <span class="translit">(lil·ḇā·ḇām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3824.htm">Strong's 3824: </a> </span><span class="str2">Inner man, mind, will, heart</span><br /><br /><span class="word">that I remember</span><br /><span class="heb">זָכָ֑רְתִּי</span> <span class="translit">(zā·ḵā·rə·tî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2142.htm">Strong's 2142: </a> </span><span class="str2">To mark, to remember, to mention, to be male</span><br /><br /><span class="word">all</span><br /><span class="heb">כָּל־</span> <span class="translit">(kāl-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">their evil.</span><br /><span class="heb">רָעָתָ֖ם</span> <span class="translit">(rā·‘ā·ṯām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7451.htm">Strong's 7451: </a> </span><span class="str2">Bad, evil</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Now</span><br /><span class="heb">עַתָּה֙</span> <span class="translit">(‘at·tāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6258.htm">Strong's 6258: </a> </span><span class="str2">At this time</span><br /><br /><span class="word">their deeds</span><br /><span class="heb">מַֽעַלְלֵיהֶ֔ם</span> <span class="translit">(ma·‘al·lê·hem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4611.htm">Strong's 4611: </a> </span><span class="str2">A deed, practice</span><br /><br /><span class="word">are all around them;</span><br /><span class="heb">סְבָב֣וּם</span> <span class="translit">(sə·ḇā·ḇūm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5437.htm">Strong's 5437: </a> </span><span class="str2">To turn about, go around, surround</span><br /><br /><span class="word">they are</span><br /><span class="heb">הָיֽוּ׃</span> <span class="translit">(hā·yū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1961.htm">Strong's 1961: </a> </span><span class="str2">To fall out, come to pass, become, be</span><br /><br /><span class="word">before</span><br /><span class="heb">נֶ֥גֶד</span> <span class="translit">(ne·ḡeḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5048.htm">Strong's 5048: </a> </span><span class="str2">A front, part opposite, a counterpart, mate, over against, before</span><br /><br /><span class="word">My face.</span><br /><span class="heb">פָּנַ֖י</span> <span class="translit">(pā·nay)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6440.htm">Strong's 6440: </a> </span><span class="str2">The face</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/hosea/7-2.htm">Hosea 7:2 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/hosea/7-2.htm">Hosea 7:2 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/hosea/7-2.htm">Hosea 7:2 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/hosea/7-2.htm">Hosea 7:2 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/hosea/7-2.htm">Hosea 7:2 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/hosea/7-2.htm">Hosea 7:2 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/hosea/7-2.htm">Hosea 7:2 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/hosea/7-2.htm">Hosea 7:2 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/hosea/7-2.htm">Hosea 7:2 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/hosea/7-2.htm">Hosea 7:2 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/hosea/7-2.htm">OT Prophets: Hosea 7:2 They don't consider in their hearts that (Ho Hs Hos.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/hosea/7-1.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Hosea 7:1"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Hosea 7:1" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/hosea/7-3.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Hosea 7:3"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Hosea 7:3" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>