Hosea 7:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁶ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ For they have made ready their heart, and their mind burns [with intrigue] like an oven while they lie in wait. Their anger smolders all night; in the morning it blazes forth as a flaming fire.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ 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.

Common English Bible

⁶ They approach like a hot oven, their hearts burning. Throughout the night, their anger smolders; in the morning, it continues to burn like a flaming fire.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ For they have used their heart like an oven, while he laid snares for them; he slept through the night baking them, and by morning he himself was heated like a burning fire.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Because they have applied their heart like an oven, when he laid snares for them: he slept all the night baking them, in the morning he himself was heated as a flaming fire.

Hosea 7:6 Cross References

Psalm 21:9

Thou shalt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger. The LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, And the fire shall devour them.

Proverbs 4:16

For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

Hosea 7:4

They are all adulterers; they are as an oven heated by the baker; he ceaseth to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it be leavened.

Hosea 7:7

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

Micah 2:1

Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.