KJV 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.
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Hosea 7:6
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.
WEB World English Bible
For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For they have drawn near, As an oven is their heart, In their lying in wait all the night sleep doth their baker, Morning! he is burning as a flaming fire.
Surrounding context — Hosea 7
3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
4 They [are] all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, [who] ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
5 In the day of our king the princes have made [him] sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
6 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.
7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: [there is] none among them that calleth unto me.
8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth [it] not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
כִּֽי־H3588 · kiforקֵרְב֧וּH7126 · qa.ravto present: comeכַתַּנּ֛וּרH8574 · tan.nur(Tower of) the Ovensלִבָּ֖םH3820 · levheartבְּאָרְבָּ֑םH696 · o.revambushכָּל־H3605 · kolallהַלַּ֙יְלָה֙H3915 · lay.lahnightיָשֵׁ֣ןH3463 · ya.shensleepingאֹֽפֵהֶ֔םH644 · a.phahto bakeבֹּ֕קֶרH1242 · bo.qermorningה֥וּאH1931 · huhe/she/itבֹעֵ֖רH1197 · ba.arto burn: burnכְּאֵ֥שׁH784 · eshfireלֶהָבָֽה׃H3852 · le.ha.vahflame
Cross-references
Psalm 10:8-9He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.Micah 2:1Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.Proverbs 4:16For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall.1 Samuel 19:11-15Saul also sent messengers unto David’s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David’s wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.2 Samuel 13:28-29Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.Hosea 7:4They [are] all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, [who] ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.Hosea 7:7They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: [there is] none among them that calleth unto me.Psalm 21:9Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
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