Matthew Poole and continuators on Hosea 7:2

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 :

They who are thus greatly wicked, notorious sinners

Do not remember, nor will they once seriously ponder this.

That I see all they do, and remember all I see, and that with more than an idle unactive looking on, or retaining in memory, I look on, and remember to call them to account, and to punish for their sins. They wou'd flatter themselves into an opinion that I take no notice of their wickedness, and that I will never require it.

The guilt and punishment, the iniquity, and mischief of the works they have done, their own doings, not their Fathers as Hypocrites, and the incorrigible are ready to complain.

As Cords wrap one taken in them, or as an Enemy invests and besiegeth a Town on every side, so these profligate people, Courtiers, Priests, Prophets and Citizens are all held enclosed with their own sins.

What they have done I do see, and what they suffer I do see, and it is but just they should suffer what their sins deserve; they hoped for impunity, because they thought I did not regard, but now by a just punishment, by full measures of sorrows heapt upon them, they shall find all their wayes were under my eye, and that I weighed their doings.

Marginal references: Heb. [illegible: 1 span]