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Hosea 7:6

King James Version (KJV)

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Hosea 7:6

Verse 6 of 16

Scripture focus

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.

Hosea 7:6 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Hosea 7:6

Theological / Devotional

Made ready their heart. This shows why the people so openly carry on their wickedness. Their heart, as an oven, has been getting hotter and hotter through the accumulating fires of their evil inclinations and desires.

Sleepeth. The waiting time is the period when there is no open, active demonstration of evil. But though the fire of iniquity seems at times to be banked in the human heart, and thus passive, it is still the fire of iniquity, ready to break forth with the intensified heat of premeditated sin.

All the night. The baker, so to speak, sleeps while the dough is leavening, that is, while the diabolical design is being worked up. When all is in readiness, or “in the morning,” the baker stirs up the fire, the oven is sufficiently heated, the baking begins; that is, the purposed evil is accomplished. The baker may be thought of as representing the ringleader of the plot.

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