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.
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For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.
The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
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.
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)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) was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria , the court and the chief city.”…
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