“For they have prepared their heart like an oven,while they lie in wait.Their anger smolders all night.In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.”
Hosea 7:6 (WEB)
Context Reading
4They are all adulterers.They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring,from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened. 5On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine.He joined his hand with mockers. 6For they have prepared their heart like an oven,while they lie in wait.Their anger smolders all night.In the morning it burns as a flaming fire. 7They 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. 8Ephraim mixes himself among the nations.Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.