Hosea 7:6

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Summary

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.

They

General references

Proverbs 6:27

Bible References

They

All these burn in adultery, as it were an oven that the baker heateth when he hath left kneading, till the dough be leavened.

Then Saul sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him and to slay him in the morning. But Michal his wife told it him saying, "If thou save not thyself this night, tomorrow thou art a dead man."

Then Absalom commanded his young men, saying, "Mark when Amnon's heart is merry with wine; and when I bid you smite Amnon, then kill him. Fear not, for it is I that bid you. Be bold therefore and play the lusty bloods."

He sitteth lurking in the thievish corners of the streets, and privily in his lurking dens doth he murder the innocent; his eyes are set against the poor.

For they cannot sleep, except they have first done some mischief: neither take they any rest, except they have first done some harm.

Woe unto them that imagine to do harm, and devise ungraciousness upon their beds, to perform it in the clear day: for their power is against God.

General references

May a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burnt?