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Hosea 7:2 KJV
Hosea · chapter 7 · verse 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.Hosea 7:2 · King James Version
Hosea 7:2 in context
1When 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.
2And 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.
3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
4They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- wickednessraʻbad or evilH7451 →
- considerʼâmarto sayH559 →
- rememberzâkarproperly, to markH2142 →
- heartslêbâbthe heartH3824 →
- doingsmaʻălâlan actH4611 →
- aboutçâbabto revolve, surround, or borderH5437 →
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Some take away the last words of the foregoing chapter, and make them the beginning of this: "When I returned, or would have returned, the captivity of my people, when I was about to come towards them in ways of mercy, even when I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim (the country and common people)…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-7