And they do not consider in their hearts - Literally, they do not say to their hearts. The conscience is God’s voice to the heart f…

Have beset them about.— The wicked deeds of the nation crowded around them as witnesses to reveal their treason against Jehovah.

The Prophet shows here that the Israelites had advanced to the highest summit of all wickedness, because they thought that no account was ever to b…

And they consider not in their hearts [that] I remember all
their wickedness
That is,…

A practical disbelief in God's government was at the bottom of all Israel's wickedness; as if God could not see it or did not heed it. Their sins a…