Hosea 7:6
4 They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.
5 The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him.
For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
7 All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me.
8 Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is an unturned cake.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
- KJV
- For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
- WEB
- For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their anger smolders all night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.
- ASV
- For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
- DARBY
- For they have applied their heart like an oven to their lying in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth like a flaming fire.
- BLB
- For they approach; like an oven [is] their heart in ambush; all night their baker is sleeping; in the morning it burns like a fire of flame.
- ÅB
- For de gjør sitt hjerte så hett som en ovn mens de lurer; hele natten sover deres baker[^1], om morgenen brenner det som flammende ild.
- OTB
- For deres hjerter er som en ovn
Når de nærmer seg sin planlegging;
Deres vrede ulmer hele natten,
Om morgenen brenner den som en flammende ild. - B1930
- For de gjør sitt hjerte så hett som en ovn mens de lurer; hele natten sover deres baker, om morgenen brenner det som luende ild.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Micah 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
Read in contextPsalms 10:8–9
He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.
Read in contextHosea 7:4
They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.
Read in contextHosea 7:7
All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me.
Read in contextProverbs 4:16
For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
Read in context2 Samuel 13:28–29
Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valiant!”
Read in context1 Samuel 19:11–15
Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”
Read in contextPsalms 21:9
You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will consume them.
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