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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)Their hearts are like an oven blazing with intrigue. Their plot smolders through the night, and in the morning it breaks out like a raging fire.

Context of Hosea 7:6

4They are all adulterers, burning like an oven whose fire the baker need not stir from the kneading of the dough till it rises. 5On the day of the festival of our king the princes become inflamed with wine, and he joins hands with the mockers. 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. 7All of them are hot as an oven; they devour their rulers. All their kings fall, and none of them calls on me. 8“Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is a flat loaf not turned over.

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 adulterers, burning like an oven whose fire the baker need not stir from the kneading of the dough till it rises.
• 1 Samuel 19:11Saul sent men to David’s house to watch it and to kill him in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, warned him, “If you don’t run for your life tonight, tomorrow you’ll be killed.”
• 2 Samuel 13:28Absalom ordered his men, “Listen! When Amnon is in high spirits from drinking wine and I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon down,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I given you this order? Be strong and brave.”
• Psalms 10:8He lies in wait near the villages; from ambush he murders the innocent. His eyes watch in secret for his victims;
• Proverbs 4:16For they cannot rest until they do evil; they are robbed of sleep till they make someone stumble.
• Micah 2:1Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it.

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