Hosea 7:6

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.

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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. Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, "If you don't save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed." 12 So Michal let David down through the window. He went, fled, and escaped. 13 Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' [hair] at its head, and covered it with the clothes. 14 When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick." 15 Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him."
  • 2 Sam 13:28-29 : 28 Absalom commanded his servants, saying, "Mark now, when Amnon's heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, 'Strike Amnon,' then kill him. Don't be afraid. Haven't I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!" 29 The servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man got up on his mule, and fled.
  • Ps 10:8-9 : 8 He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless. 9 He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.
  • Ps 21:9 : 9 You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
  • Hos 7:4 : 4 They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.
  • Hos 7:7 : 7 They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.
  • Mic 2:1 : 1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 7 They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.

  • Hos 7:2-5
    4 verses
    80%

    2 They don't consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed 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. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.

    5 On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.

  • Prov 4:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

    16 For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

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

  • 9 You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

  • 10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

  • 18 For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

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

  • 2 those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

  • 2 For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

  • 14 As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

  • Ps 64:4-6
    3 verses
    72%

    4 to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

    5 They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?"

    6 They plot injustice, saying, "We have made a perfect plan!" Surely man's mind and heart are cunning.

  • 6 They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

  • 10 Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.

  • Job 24:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

    17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

  • Hos 7:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14 They haven't cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.

    15 Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet they plot evil against me.

  • 8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.

  • 2 for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.

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

  • 29 The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.

  • 18 but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

  • 8 They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

  • 10 Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the flesh, and make thick the broth, and let the bones be burned.

  • 5 Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.

  • 8 They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely." They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.

  • Ps 17:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11 They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

    12 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • 3 Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

  • 39 When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says Yahweh.

  • 11 For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

  • 14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.

  • 26 For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

  • 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

  • 7 For they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.

  • 33 For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh's breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

  • 14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses."

  • 18 A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the wicked.

  • 7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.

  • 20 saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.'

  • 13 He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.

  • 14 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

  • 14 They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but none goes to the battle; for my wrath is on all its multitude.

  • 25 Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire all around, but he didn't know; and it burned him, but he didn't take it to heart."