Hosea 7:2
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.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
3They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and the princes with their lies.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:29O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end.
Job 34:21For his eyes are upon the ways of men, and he considereth all their steps.
Psalms 50:22Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.
Proverbs 5:21The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps.
Isaiah 5:12The harp, and the lyre, and the timbrel, and the pipe, and wine are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you consider the works of his hands.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 7:2-8
Charge Drawn up against Israel; The Crimes of the Princes. ( b. c. 750.) 1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without. 2 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. 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. 4 They are… Read the whole commentary →