What Does Hosea 7:2 Mean in the King James?
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.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
What their hearts will not consider is already before God’s face, and their own deeds have become what surrounds them.
THE MEANING
Your heart can decline to register wrongdoing; the actions still surround you and remain before God’s face. The verse holds divine remembrance and human consequence in the same present: what is kept in view is also what now encircles.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie is that what you refuse to face is gone. Here it remains before God’s face, and your own actions have closed around you.
THE ROOT
זָכַרְתִּי
zākartî
GROWS FROM
זכר
z-k-r
Remember, call to mind, bring into remembrance.
“remember” in this verse is zākartî. This word family reaches beyond private mental recall: it also names a memorial or remembrance, something kept present. Here, all their wrongdoing is in view while their own deeds surround them.
ALSO GROWS
zikkārôn: Memorial, remembrance.
זִכָּרוֹן
A memorial keeps something present; it illuminates the force of remembering in the verse.
zēkher: Remembrance, mention.
זֵכֶר
This branch links remembering with what is held in view or brought to mention.
סְבָבוּם
səvāvūm
GROWS FROM
סבב
s-b-b
Turn, go around, surround.
“have beset them about” in this verse is səvāvūm. The verb makes their own deeds the thing encircling them. What their hearts do not consider remains present as the reality around them.
ALSO GROWS
sāvîv: Around, all around.
סָבִיב
The same root gives the language of what lies around a person, sharpening the image of deeds closing in.
sōvēv: Turning, surrounding.
סוֹבֵב
This form carries the root’s turning motion, echoing how the deeds circle around them.
THE PATTERN
What is hidden from the heart remains in view and can return as an enclosing reality.
But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.THE THREAD
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness’ sake, O LORD.The same Hebrew root, זכר (z-k-r, remember), appears in both verses: here God remembers wrongdoing; there the speaker asks God to remember the person according to goodness. The shared root makes remembrance the point of connection, while showing what is brought into view can change.
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