Hosea 7:6

Hosea 7:6 in other versions

• King James Version (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.
• New International Version (NIV)Their hearts are like an oven; they approach him with intrigue. Their passion smolders all night; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
• English Standard Version (ESV)For with hearts like an oven they approach their intrigue; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
• New King James Version (NKJV)They prepare their heart like an oven, While they lie in wait; Their baker sleeps all night; In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.

Context of Hosea 7:6

4They are all like bakers, they are like a smoldering oven; they are like a baker who does not stoke the fire until the kneaded dough is ready for baking. 5At the celebration of their king, his princes become inflamed with wine; they conspire with evildoers. They approach him, all the while plotting against him. Their hearts are like an oven; their anger smolders all night long, but in the morning it bursts into a flaming fire. 7All of them are blazing like an oven; they devour their rulers. All of their kings fall – and none of them call on me! 8Ephraim has mixed itself like flour among the nations; Ephraim is like a ruined cake of bread that is scorched on one side.

Hosea 7:6 word by word

כִּֽי־קֵרְב֧וּ כַתַּנּ֛וּר לִבָּ֖ם בְּאָרְבָּ֑ם כָּל־הַלַּ֙יְלָה֙ יָשֵׁ֣ן אֹֽפֵהֶ֔ם בֹּ֕קֶר ה֥וּא בֹעֵ֖ר כְּאֵ֥שׁ לֶהָבָֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• For they have made readyקָרַבqârab · to present: comeH7126
• their heartלֵבlêb · heartH3820
• like an ovenתַּנּוּרtannûr · ovenH8574
• whiles they lie in waitאָרַב'ârab · to ambushH693
• their bakerאָפָה'âphâh · to bakeH644
• sleepethיָשֵׁןyâshên · sleepingH3463
• all the nightלַ֫יְלָהlayil lêyl layelâh · nightH3915
• in the morningבֹּ֫קֶרbôqer · morningH1242
• it burnethבָּעַרbâ‛ar · to burn: burnH1197
• as a flamingלֶהָבָהlehâbâh lahebeth · flameH3852
• fireאֵשׁ'êsh · fireH784

Cross-references for Hosea 7:6

• Hosea 7:4They are all like bakers, they are like a smoldering oven; they are like a baker who does not stoke the fire until the kneaded dough is ready for baking.
• 1 Samuel 19:11Saul sent messengers to David’s house to guard it and to kill him in the morning. Then David’s wife Michal told him, “If you do not save yourself tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”
• 2 Samuel 13:28Absalom instructed his servants, “Look! When Amnon is drunk and I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon down,’ kill him then and there. Don’t fear! Is it not I who have given you these instructions? Be strong and courageous!”
• Psalms 10:8He waits in ambush near the villages; in hidden places he kills the innocent. His eyes look for some unfortunate victim.
• Proverbs 4:16For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.
• Micah 2:1Those who devise sinful plans are as good as dead, those who dream about doing evil as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.

Commentaries on Hosea 7:6

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6For they have made ready their heart like an oven - He gives the reason old their bursting out into open mischief; it was ever stored up within. They “made ready,” (literally, “brought near”) “their heart.” Their heart was ever brought near to sin, even while the occasion was removed at a distance from it. “The “oven” is their heart; the fuel, their corrupt affections, and inclinations, and evil concupiscence, with which it is filled; “their baker,” their…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6A simile effectively compares the plots and political intrigue of this turbulent time to a red-hot oven that sets the entire land on fire.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. they have made ready--rather, "they make their heart approach," namely their king, in going to drink with him. like an oven--following out the image in Ho 7:4. As it conceals the lighted fire all night while the baker sleeps but in the morning burns as a flaming fire, so they brood mischief in their hearts while conscience is lulled asleep, and their wicked designs wait only for a fair occasion to break forth [Horsley]. Their heart is the oven, their…Read the comment

Topics related to Hosea 7:6

• Baker
• Oven
• Sin

In the dictionaries

• Bake
• Troop
• Fire
• Hosea
• Zechariah, Book of

Commentaries on Hosea 7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings