Hosea 7:6

Wherefore their hearts are inflamed as an oven, while they rage all the night: Ephraim is satisfied with sleep; the morning is come; he is burned up as a flame of fire.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

5In the days of our kings, the princes began to be inflamed with wine: he stretched out his hand with pestilent fellows.

7They are all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges: all their kings are fallen; there was not among them one that called on me.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 13:28And Absalom charged his servants, saying, Mark when the heart of Amnon shall be merry with wine, and I shall say to you, Smite Amnon, and slay him: fear not; for is it not I that command you? Be courageous, and be valiant.

Psalms 21:9He hoped in the Lord: let him deliver him, 1 Let him save him, because he takes pleasure in him. 1

Hosea 7:4They are all adulterers, as an oven glowing with flame for hot baking, on account of the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.

Micah 2:1They meditated troubles, and wrought wickedness on their beds, and they put it in execution with the daylight; for they have not lifted up their hands to God.

Matthew Henry on Hosea 7:2-8

Charge Drawn up against Israel; The Crimes of the Princes. ( b. c. 750.) 1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without. 2 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. 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. 4 They are… Read the whole commentary →

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