Hosea 7:6

for like an oven their heart burns with treachery, all night their anger smolders, in the morning it blazes into a flame of fire.

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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

5On our king’s festival day, the princes are flushed with fever from wine. He stretched forth his hand with the contemptuous,

7All of them glow like an oven, they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen. There is none among them who calls to me.

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Cross References

Psalms 21:9You will make them like a furnace of fire, when you appear, Lord. The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire will devour them.

Hosea 7:4since they are all of them adulterers. Their desire to do evil burns like an oven heated by the baker, so hot that he need not stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough, until it rises.

Micah 2:1Woe to those who lie awake planning evil, who in the light of morning carry out their plan because they have the power to do it.

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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