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 adulterers, always aflame with lust. They are like an oven that is kept hot while the baker is kneading the dough. 5On royal holidays, the princes get drunk with wine, carousing with those who mock them. 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. 7Burning like an oven, they consume their leaders. They kill their kings one after another, and no one cries to me for help. 8“The people of Israel mingle with godless foreigners, making themselves as worthless as a half-baked cake!

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, always aflame with lust. They are like an oven that is kept hot while the baker is kneading the dough.
• 1 Samuel 19:11Then Saul sent troops to watch David’s house. They were told to kill David when he came out the next morning. But Michal, David’s wife, warned him, “If you don’t escape tonight, you will be dead by morning.”
• 2 Samuel 13:28Absalom told his men, “Wait until Amnon gets drunk; then at my signal, kill him! Don’t be afraid. I’m the one who has given the command. Take courage and do it!”
• Psalms 10:8They lurk in ambush in the villages, waiting to murder innocent people. They are always searching for helpless victims.
• Proverbs 4:16For evil people can’t sleep until they’ve done their evil deed for the day. They can’t rest until they’ve caused someone to stumble.
• Micah 2:1What sorrow awaits you who lie awake at night, thinking up evil plans. You rise at dawn and hurry to carry them out, simply because you 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