Hosea 7:6

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.

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Other Translations

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 also sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning; and Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you shall be killed. 12 So Michal let David down through a window; and he went, and fled, and escaped. 13 And Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for its head, and covered it with a cloth. 14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick. 15 And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.
  • 2 Sam 13:28-29 : 28 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Watch now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, Strike Amnon; then kill him, do not fear: have not I commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant. 29 And the servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man got on his mule and fled.
  • Ps 10:8-9 : 8 He sits in the lurking places of the villages; in the secret places he murders the innocent; his eyes are secretly set against the poor. 9 He lies in wait secretly, as a lion in his den; he lies in wait to catch the poor; he catches the poor when he draws him into his net.
  • Ps 21:9 : 9 You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall consume them.
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
  • Hos 7:4 : 4 They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker, who ceases from stirring after he has kneaded the dough, until it is leavened.
  • Hos 7:7 : 7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings have fallen: there is none among them that calls unto me.
  • Mic 2:1 : 1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it because it is in the power of their hand.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Hos 7:7
    83%

    7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings have fallen: there is none among them that calls unto me.

  • Hos 7:2-5
    4 verses
    80%

    2 And they do not consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own actions have surrounded them; they are before my face.

    3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

    4 They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker, who ceases from stirring after he has kneaded the dough, until it is leavened.

    5 On the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he reaches out his hand with scorners.

  • Prov 4:16-17
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    75%

    16 For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

    17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

  • Ps 21:9
    74%

    9 You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall consume them.

  • Nah 1:10
    73%

    10 For while they are entangled like thorns and while they are drunken like drunkards, they shall be devoured as fully dry stubble.

  • Isa 9:18
    73%

    18 For wickedness burns like the fire; it will devour the briers and thorns and will kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they will mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

  • Mic 2:1
    72%

    1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it because it is in the power of their hand.

  • Ps 140:2
    72%

    2 Who devise mischiefs in their hearts; continually they gather together for war.

  • Ps 11:2
    72%

    2 For behold, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, to secretly shoot at the upright in heart.

  • Ps 83:14
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    14 As the fire burns a forest, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire;

  • Ps 64:4-6
    3 verses
    72%

    4 That they may shoot in secret at the blameless; suddenly do they shoot at him and fear not.

    5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter; they talk of laying snares secretly; they say, Who shall see them?

    6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search; the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

  • Ps 56:6
    71%

    6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, waiting for my life.

  • Ps 140:10
    71%

    10 Let burning coals fall upon them; let them be cast into the fire, into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

  • Job 24:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16 In the dark they break into houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

    17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if one knows them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • Hos 7:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they gather themselves for grain and wine, and they rebel against me.

    15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet they imagine mischief against me.

  • Jer 9:8
    71%

    8 Their tongue is like an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lies in wait.

  • Prov 24:2
    71%

    2 For their hearts plot destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

  • Isa 47:14
    71%

    14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them. They shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame; there shall not be a coal to warm by, nor a fire to sit before.

  • Jer 6:29
    71%

    29 The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed by the fire; the refiner melts in vain, for the wicked are not removed.

  • Prov 1:18
    71%

    18 And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.

  • Hos 4:8
    70%

    8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their hearts on their iniquity.

  • Ezek 24:10
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    10 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.

  • Ps 76:5
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    5 The stouthearted have been plundered, they have slept their sleep; and none of the mighty men have found their hands.

  • Ps 74:8
    70%

    8 They said in their hearts, "Let us destroy them together": they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

  • Ps 17:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11 They have now surrounded us in our steps; they have set their eyes, bending down to the earth.

    12 Like a lion that is eager for its prey, and as a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • Mic 7:3
    70%

    3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

  • Jer 51:39
    70%

    39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the LORD.

  • Ps 21:11
    70%

    11 For they intended evil against you: they devised a mischievous scheme, which they are not able to perform.

  • Ps 37:14
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    14 The wicked have drawn the sword and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay those who are of upright conduct.

  • Jer 5:26
    70%

    26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay in wait, as he who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

  • Jer 18:22
    69%

    22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have dug a pit to take me, and hidden snares for my feet.

  • Ps 79:7
    69%

    7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

  • Isa 30:33
    69%

    33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yes, for the king it is prepared; he has made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, kindles it.

  • Hos 8:14
    69%

    14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities, but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces there.

  • Ps 106:18
    69%

    18 And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

  • Isa 59:7
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    7 Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.

  • Job 22:20
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    20 Our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumes.

  • Ps 7:13
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    13 He has also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordains his arrows against the persecutors.

  • Job 24:14
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    14 The murderer, rising with the light, kills the poor and needy, and in the night is like a thief.

  • Ezek 7:14
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    14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goes to the battle, for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

  • Isa 42:25
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    25 Therefore he has poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it set him on fire all around, yet he did not know; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.