Hosea 7:6

For they have made ready, like an oven, their heart, by their lying in wait,—all the night, their baker sleepeth, in the morning, he, kindleth up as it were a blazing fire.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 day of our king, the rulers, have made themselves ill, with the heat of wine,—he hath extended his hand with scoffers.

7They all, become hot as an oven, and devour their judges,—all their kings, have fallen, there hath been none among them crying unto me.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 13:28Now Absolom had commanded his young men, saying—Mark, I pray you, when the heart of Amnon is merry with wine, and I say unto you—Smite ye Amnon, then shall ye put him to death, do not fear,—have not, I myself, commanded you? Be bold, and show yourselves to be sons of valour.

Psalms 21:9Thou wilt make them like a furnace of fire, at the time of thy presence,—Yahweh, in his anger, will swallow them up, and there shall consume them a fire:

Hosea 7:4They all, are adulterers, like an oven too hot for the baker,—who leaveth off stoking, after kneading the dough, till the whole be leavened.

Micah 2:1Alas for them who devise iniquity and work wickedness upon their beds,—in the light of the morning, they will execute it, for it is in the power of their hand.

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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