John Trapp on Hosea 7:2

Verſe 2. And they conſider not in their hearts,] Heb. They ſay not in their hearts: that is, they ſet not down themſelves with this conſideration, they commune not with their conſciences upon this moſt needfull, but much neglected matter. A good mans work lieth much within doors: he loves to be dealing with himſelf, and working good and wholſome conſiderations upon his own affections. He is never leſſe alone, then when hee is alone: for ſtill hee hath God and himſelf to talk to.

that I remember all their wickedneſſe,] i. e. Record and regiſter them, as in a book, with a pen of iron, and point of a Diamond, Ier. 17.1. that I ſeal them up in a bag, Job 14.17. as the Clark of Aſſizes ſeals up Inditements, and at the Aſſizes brings his bag, and produceth them. Is not this laid up in ſtore with me, and ſealed-up among my treaſures? Deut. 32.34. So little reaſon is there, that wicked men ſhould pleaſe themſelves in hope of impunity. And yet they do, Pſal. 94.7. they ſtrive to perſwade themſelves, that the Lord doth not ſee, neither doth the God of Jacob remember: They hide God from themſelves, and then think they have hid themſelves from Him. Herein they are alike fooliſh as the Struthiocamelus, Plin. lib. 10. cap. 1. a bird as big as a Camell, and taller then a man: When this Buſtard would hide her ſelfe, ſhe thruſts her head into a thicket, as conceiving that no body ſeeth her, becauſe ſhe ſeeth no body; and ſo becomes a prey to the hunter. Caveatur carnalis ſecuritas. Let us walk evermore in the ſenſe of Gods preſence, unleſſe we had rather be carnally ſecured, then ſoundly comforted.

now their own doings have beſet them about.] Their ſtudied wickedneſſe, their contrived iniquities, ſo Luther expounds the word doings: Studia corum Tigurin. for wicked men are great ſtudents, and break many a nights ſleep in pernicious ploddings, Prov. 4.16. But as the Blackbird is taken by birdlime made of his own excrements, ſo is the wicked beſet by his own devices; as by ſo many ſerjeants ſet on by God. Some think (and not without probable reaſon) that the Prophet in this phraſe of beſetting them about, alludeth to the future ſiege of Samaria: wherein theſe ſinners againſt their own ſouls were ſo ſtraitly beſet by the enemy, that they could not flee, or ſtir, without danger. And this he ſaith ſhall befall them. Now, that is, ſhortly, and ſooner then they think for: Indeed how ſhould it be otherwiſe, when as their doings are b[illegible: 2 letters]ore my face?] Eregione & velut adverſa ac deteſtata, Over-anent and in full view, as a continuall eye-ſore to me, Pſal. 57.5. & 90.8. ſo that though I could or would forget them, yet they will not ſuffer me to do ſo: ſuch is their impudency, and importunacy for vengeance. Lyra makes it a metaphor, from a thief taken in the act, with his back burden of ſtollen goods; and as it were beſet with them, and ſo brought before the Judge. His own iniquities ſhall take the wicked, ſaith Solomon, Prov. 5.22. For how can he eſcape the multitude of his ſins within him, and the variety of Gods heavie judgements without him, &c?