Hosea 7:6

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.

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  • 1 Sam 19:11-15 : 11 Saul 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!” 12 So Michal lowered David through the window, and he ran away and escaped. 13 Then Michal took a household idol and put it on the bed. She put a quilt made of goat’s hair over its head and then covered the idol with a garment. 14 When Saul sent messengers to arrest David, she said,“He’s sick.” 15 Then Saul sent the messengers back to see David, saying,“Bring him up to me on his bed so I can kill him.”
  • 2 Sam 13:28-29 : 28 Absalom 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!” 29 So Absalom’s servants did to Amnon exactly what Absalom had instructed. Then all the king’s sons got up; each one rode away on his mule and fled.
  • Ps 10:8-9 : 8 He waits in ambush near the villages; in hidden places he kills the innocent. His eyes look for some unfortunate victim. 9 He lies in ambush in a hidden place, like a lion in a thicket; he lies in ambush, waiting to catch the oppressed; he catches the oppressed by pulling in his net.
  • Ps 21:9 : 9 You burn them up like a fiery furnace when you appear; the LORD angrily devours them; the fire consumes them.
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.
  • Hos 7:4 : 4 They 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.
  • Hos 7:7 : 7 All of them are blazing like an oven; they devour their rulers. All of their kings fall– and none of them call on me!
  • Mic 2:1 : 1 Land Robbers Will Lose Their Land Beware wicked schemers, those who devise calamity as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.

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

  • Hos 7:2-5
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    2They do not realize that I remember all of their wicked deeds. Their evil deeds have now surrounded them; their sinful deeds are always before me.

    3Political Intrigue and Conspiracy in the Palace The royal advisers delight the king with their evil schemes, the princes make him glad with their lies.

    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.

  • Prov 4:16-17
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    16For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.

    17Indeed they have eaten bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.

  • Ps 21:9
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    9You burn them up like a fiery furnace when you appear; the LORD angrily devours them; the fire consumes them.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.

  • Isa 9:18
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    18For evil burned like a fire, it consumed thorns and briers; it burned up the thickets of the forest, and they went up in smoke.

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    1Land Robbers Will Lose Their Land Beware wicked schemers, those who devise calamity as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.

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    2who plan ways to harm me. All day long they stir up conflict.

  • Ps 11:2
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    2For look, the wicked prepare their bows, they put their arrows on the strings, to shoot in the darkness at the morally upright.

  • Ps 83:14
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    14Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,

  • Ps 64:4-6
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    4in order to shoot down the innocent in secluded places. They shoot at him suddenly and are unafraid of retaliation.

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    6They devise unjust schemes; they disguise a well-conceived plot. Man’s inner thoughts cannot be discovered.

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    6They stalk and lurk; they watch my every step, as they prepare to take my life.

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    10May he rain down fiery coals upon them! May he throw them into the fire! From bottomless pits they will not escape.

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

    17For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.

  • Hos 7:14-15
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    14They do not pray to me, but howl in distress on their beds; They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from me.

    15Although I trained and strengthened them, they plot evil against me!

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    8Their tongues are like deadly arrows. They are always telling lies. Friendly words for their neighbors come from their mouths. But their minds are thinking up ways to trap them.

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    2for their hearts contemplate violence, and their lips speak harm.

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    14Look, they are like straw, which the fire burns up; they cannot rescue themselves from the heat of the flames. There are no coals to warm them, no firelight to enjoy.

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    29The fiery bellows of judgment burn fiercely. But there is too much dross to be removed. The process of refining them has proved useless. The wicked have not been purged.

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    18but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!

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    10Pile up the wood, kindle the fire; cook the meat well, mix in the spices, let the bones be charred.

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    11They attack me, now they surround me; they intend to throw me to the ground.

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    11Yes, they intend to do you harm; they dream up a scheme, but they do not succeed.

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    14Evil men draw their swords and prepare their bows, to bring down the oppressed and needy, and to slaughter those who are godly.

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    26“Indeed, there are wicked scoundrels among my people. They lie in wait like bird catchers hiding in ambush. They set deadly traps to catch people.

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    22Let cries of terror be heard in their houses when you send bands of raiders unexpectedly to plunder them. For they have virtually dug a pit to capture me and have hidden traps for me to step into.

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    7For they have devoured Jacob and destroyed his home.

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    33For the burial place is already prepared; it has been made deep and wide for the king. The firewood is piled high on it. The LORD’s breath, like a stream flowing with brimstone, will ignite it.

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    14Israel has forgotten his Maker and built royal palaces, and Judah has built many fortified cities. But I will send fire on their cities; it will consume their royal citadels.

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    18Fire burned their group; the flames scorched the wicked.

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    13He has prepared deadly weapons to use against him; he gets ready to shoot flaming arrows.

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    14Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.

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    14“They have blown the trumpet and everyone is ready, but no one goes to battle, because my anger is against their whole crowd.

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    25So he poured out his fierce anger on them, along with the devastation of war. Its flames encircled them, but they did not realize it; it burned against them, but they did not take it to heart.