“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 statement that they do not consider in their hearts that the LORD remembers all their wickedness suggests that Israel lives in a kind of moral stupor where they have forgotten that God is aware of and remembers their transgressions. The enumeration of their deeds surrounding them indicates that the consequences of their actions are visible and unavoidable, yet Israel has somehow lost the capacity to perceive the connection between action and consequence. This verse emphasizes the blindness that accompanies sustained covenant violation, the inability to perceive God's moral order.
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