Hosea 7:6
Good News Translation
Yes, they burned like an oven with their plotting. All night their anger smoldered, and in the morning it burst into flames.

New Revised Standard Version
For they are kindled like an oven, their heart burns within them; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

Contemporary English Version
Their anger is a fire that smolders all night, then flares up at dawn.

New American Bible
For they draw near in ambush with their hearts like an oven. All the night their anger sleeps; in the morning it flares like a blazing fire.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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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.

they.

Hosea 7:4,7 They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker: the city rested a little from the mingling of the leaven, till the whole was leavened. . . .

1 Samuel 19:11-15 Saul therefore sent his guards to David's house to watch him, that he might be killed in the morning. And when Michol, David's wife, had told him this, saying: Unless thou save thyself this night, to morrow thou wilt die: . . .

2 Samuel 13:28,29 And Absalom had commanded his servants, saying: Take notice when Ammon shall be drunk with wine, and when I shall say to you: Strike him, and kill him, fear not: for it is I that command you: take courage, and be valiant men. . . .

Psalm 10:8,9 He sits in ambush with the rich in private places, that he may kill the innocent. . . .

Proverbs 4:16 They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity.

Micah 2:1 Make thee bald, and be polled for thy delicate children: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle: for they are carried into captivity from thee.

made ready.

Context
Ephraim's Iniquity
5The day of our king, the princes began to be mad with wine: he stretched out his hand with scorners. 6Because 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.7They were all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges: all their kings have fallen: there is none amongst them that calleth unto me.…
Cross References
Psalm 21:9
Thou shalt make them as an oven of fire, in the time of thy anger: the Lord shall trouble them in his wrath, and fire shall devour them.

Micah 2:1
Make thee bald, and be polled for thy delicate children: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle: for they are carried into captivity from thee.

Hosea 7:5
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