Verse 2
"And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now have their own doings beset them about; they are before my face."
The people approach God, if at all, as though he were some pagan deity, totally indifferent to the quality of their lives, and with no recollection whatever of the glorious revelation in Israel's history which entitled them to a status as "God's own people." The sacred covenant they have long ago forgotten; and even their religion had degenerated until it had become licentious paganism. As Mays wrote:
They do not remember the history of Yahweh's revelation ... Now their deeds surround them like the wall of a prison. When they worship ... he is ready to heal and restore; but when he looks upon them he must see the reality before him - the evil, the iniquity, and the sin.[1]
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