Hosea 7:2

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“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.”

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BSBPD

“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.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“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.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And they do not say to their heart, <FI>That<Fi> all their evil I have remembered, Now compassed them have their doings, Over-against My face they have been.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Hosea 7:2 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Numbers 32:23But if you do not do this, you will certainly sin against the LORD—and be assured that your sin will find you out.
  2. Deuteronomy 32:29If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
  3. Job 20:11The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.
  4. Job 34:21For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees his every step.
  5. Psalms 9:16The LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah
  6. Psalms 10:11He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”
  7. Psalms 25:7Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellious acts; remember me according to Your loving devotion, because of Your goodness, O LORD.
  8. Psalms 50:22Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
  9. Psalms 90:8You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
  10. Proverbs 5:21For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
  11. Isaiah 1:3The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
  12. Isaiah 5:12At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.
  13. Isaiah 26:16O LORD, they sought You in their distress; when You disciplined them, they poured out a quiet prayer.
  14. Isaiah 44:19And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”
  15. Jeremiah 2:19Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
  16. Jeremiah 4:18“Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”
  17. Jeremiah 14:10This is what the LORD says about this people: “Truly they love to wander; they have not restrained their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their guilt and call their sins to account.”
  18. Jeremiah 16:17For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.
  19. Jeremiah 32:19the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
  20. Ezekiel 21:29while they offer false visions for you and lying divinations about you— to be placed on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.
  21. Hosea 6:2After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.
  22. Hosea 8:13Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.
  23. Hosea 9:9They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.
  24. Amos 8:7The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.

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