Hosea 7:6

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Their hearts are like an oven as they plot; all night their anger smolders, in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard 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.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    For they prepare their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleeps all the night; in the morning it burns like a flaming fire.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    For they have made ready{H7126} their heart{H3820} like an oven,{H8574} while they lie in wait:{H693} their baker{H644} sleepeth{H3463} all the night;{H3915} in the morning{H1242} it burneth{H1197} as a flaming{H3852} fire.{H784}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    For they have made ready{H7126}{(H8765)} their heart{H3820} like an oven{H8574}, whiles they lie in wait{H693}{(H8800)}: their baker{H644}{(H8802)} sleepeth{H3463} all the night{H3915}; in the morning{H1242} it burneth{H1197}{(H8802)} as a flaming{H3852} fire{H784}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    They with the ymaginacion of their herte are like an oue, their slepe is all ye night like the slepe of a baker, in the mornynge is he as hote as the flame of fyre:

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    For they haue made ready their heart like an ouen whiles they lie in waite: their baker sleepeth all the night: in the morning it burneth as a flame of fire.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    For whyles they lye in wayte, they haue made redye their heart lyke an ouen, their baker sleepeth all night, in the morning it burneth as a flambe of fire.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    For they have made ready 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.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    For they have made their hearts ready like an oven, while they are waiting secretly; their wrath is sleeping all night; in the morning it is burning like a flaming fire.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    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.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    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.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 19:11-15 : 11 Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him and to kill him in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, warned him, saying, 'If you don’t escape tonight, you will be killed in the morning.' 12 So Michal let David down through the window, and he fled and escaped. 13 Michal then took a household idol, placed it in the bed, put a quilt made of goat's hair at its head, and covered it with a garment. 14 When Saul sent messengers to capture David, Michal said, 'He is sick.' 15 Then Saul sent the messengers back to see David, saying, 'Bring him to me in his bed so I can kill him.'
  • 2 Sam 13:28-29 : 28 Absalom ordered his servants, saying, 'Watch when Amnon’s heart is cheerful from drinking wine, and when I say to you, "Strike Amnon down," then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I ordered you? Be strong and courageous.’ 29 So Absalom’s servants did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons got up, mounted their mules, and fled.
  • Ps 10:8-9 : 8 He sits in ambush in the villages; in the hiding places he murders the innocent; his eyes stealthily watch for the helpless. 9 He lies in wait secretly, like a lion in his den; he lies in wait to catch the afflicted; he catches the afflicted by drawing them into his net.
  • Ps 21:9 : 9 Your hand will find all Your enemies; Your right hand will discover those who hate You.
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they cannot rest until they do evil; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.
  • Hos 7:4 : 4 They are all adulterers, burning like an oven heated by the baker, who pauses from stirring the dough until it is leavened.
  • Hos 7:7 : 7 All of them are hot like an oven; they devour their rulers. All their kings fall, and none call on me.
  • Mic 2:1 : 1 Woe to those who devise wickedness and plan evil on their beds! At dawn, they carry it out because they have the power to do it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Hos 7:7
    83%

    7 All of them are hot like an oven; they devour their rulers. All their kings fall, and none call on me.

  • Hos 7:2-5
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    80%

    2 But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face.

    3 They please the king with their evil and the princes with their lies.

    4 They are all adulterers, burning like an oven heated by the baker, who pauses from stirring the dough until it is leavened.

    5 On the day of our king, the princes became inflamed with wine, and the king stretched out his hand to mockers.

  • Prov 4:16-17
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    75%

    16 For they cannot rest until they do evil; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.

    17 They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

  • Ps 21:9
    74%

    9 Your hand will find all Your enemies; Your right hand will discover those who hate You.

  • Nah 1:10
    73%

    10 Though they are entangled in thorns and drunk from their wine, they will be consumed like dry stubble.

  • Isa 9:18
    73%

    18 By the wrath of the LORD Almighty, the land is scorched, and the people are like fuel for the fire; no one spares his brother.

  • Mic 2:1
    72%

    1 Woe to those who devise wickedness and plan evil on their beds! At dawn, they carry it out because they have the power to do it.

  • Ps 140:2
    72%

    2 Rescue me, O LORD, from evil people; protect me from men of violence.

  • Ps 11:2
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    2 See how the wicked bend their bows; they set their arrows on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.

  • Ps 83:14
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    14 My God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.

  • Ps 64:4-6
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    72%

    4 They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their words like bitter arrows.

    5 They shoot from hiding places at the innocent; they shoot suddenly, without fear.

    6 They encourage each other in evil plans; they talk about hiding snares and say, 'Who will see them?'

  • Ps 56:6
    71%

    6 All day long they twist my words; all their plans are against me for evil.

  • Ps 140:10
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    10 May the heads of those who surround me be covered with the trouble their lips have caused.

  • Job 24:16-17
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    71%

    16 In the darkness, they break into houses, but by day, they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

    17 For to them, the morning is like deep darkness; they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • Hos 7:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14 They do not cry out to me from their hearts but wail on their beds. They gather together for grain and new wine but turn away from me.

    15 I disciplined them and strengthened their arms, yet they devise evil against me.

  • Jer 9:8
    71%

    8 Should I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord. Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?

  • Prov 24:2
    71%

    2 For their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk of trouble.

  • Isa 47:14
    71%

    14 Behold, they are like stubble; fire consumes them. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coal for warming oneself, nor fire to sit before.

  • Jer 6:29
    71%

    29 The bellows blow fiercely to burn away the lead with fire, but the refining goes on in vain; the wicked are not purged out.

  • Prov 1:18
    71%

    18 But these men lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.

  • Hos 4:8
    70%

    8 They feed on the sins of my people; they are greedy for their iniquity.

  • Ezek 24:10
    70%

    10 Heap on the wood, kindle the fire, boil the flesh thoroughly, mix in the spices, and let the bones burn.

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    5 You are radiant and majestic, more excellent than the mountains of prey.

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    8 They said in their hearts, 'Let us completely subdue them!' They burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

  • Ps 17:11-12
    2 verses
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    11 They track my every step; they surround me and set their eyes to bring me down to the ground.

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    3 Their hands are skilled at doing evil: the ruler demands gifts, the judge accepts bribes, and the powerful speak out their selfish desires. Together they weave a web of corrupt schemes.

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    11 You will destroy their offspring from the earth, and their descendants from among mankind.

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    70%

    14 The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows to bring down the poor and the needy, to slaughter those whose ways are upright.

  • Jer 5:26
    70%

    26 Among My people are wicked men. They lie in wait like those who set traps; they set deadly snares to catch people.

  • Jer 18:22
    69%

    22 Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring a raiding party upon them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and hidden snares for my feet.

  • Ps 79:7
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    7 For they have devoured Jacob and ruined his dwelling place.

  • Isa 30:33
    69%

    33 Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its fire pit is deep and wide, with an abundance of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a stream of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.

  • Hos 8:14
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    14 Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has fortified many cities. But I will send fire on their cities, and it will devour their strongholds.

  • Ps 106:18
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    18 Fire blazed among their company; flames consumed the wicked.

  • Isa 59:7
    69%

    7 Their feet run to do evil, and they are quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; ruin and destruction are in their paths.

  • Job 22:20
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    20 Surely our enemies are destroyed, and fire has consumed their wealth.

  • Ps 7:13
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    13 If a person does not repent, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready.

  • Job 24:14
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    14 At daybreak, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy, and at night, he is like a thief.

  • Ezek 7:14
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    14 They have blown the trumpet and prepared everything, but no one goes out to battle, for my anger is against all their multitude.

  • Isa 42:25
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    25 So He poured out on them His burning anger and the violence of war. It enveloped them in flames, yet they did not understand; it consumed them, yet they did not take it to heart.