Hosea 7:2

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.

He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

“Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?

Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times. The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

“Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they remained. The battle against the children of iniquity doesn’t overtake them in Gibeah.

who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

“The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself,” says Yahweh, the God of Armies: “I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.

Therefore don’t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known.

For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light.

For nothing is hidden that will not be revealed; nor anything secret that will not be known and come to light.

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? How will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup is found.”

Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”

For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.

The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

Because they don’t respect the works of Yahweh, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.

won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.

Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh— how much more then the hearts of the children of men!

The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

This also comes out from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat.

The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them.

“Blow the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah! Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin!

They won’t pour out wine offerings to Yahweh, neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted; for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into Yahweh’s house.

For, behold, they have gone away from destruction. Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.

You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, against your help.

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

Jesus said to him, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”

who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

Yahweh says to this people, “Even so they have loved to wander. They have not restrained their feet. Therefore Yahweh does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish them for their sins.”

Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands.

Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.

“Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”

“The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, didn’t Yahweh remember them, and didn’t it come into his mind?

They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins.

Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their works.

But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

“But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.

Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

Yahweh of Armies says, ‘I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way, when he came up out of Egypt.

For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.

“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.

Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”

Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth;

Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, “Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!”

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

“Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father’s sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;

As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it; But Yahweh doesn’t accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.

“All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels.

he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works.

Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.

No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, “I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?”