For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
Parallel translations
- WEB For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.
- KJV 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.
- NKJV They prepare their heart like an oven, While they lie in wait; Their baker sleeps all night; In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.
- NASB For their hearts are like an oven As they approach their plotting; Their anger smolders all night, In the morning it burns like flaming fire.
- NLT Their hearts are like an oven blazing with intrigue. Their plot smolders through the night, and in the morning it breaks out like a raging fire.
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Quick answer
Their hearts are like an oven heated by intrigue, smoldering through the night and bursting into flame by morning.
Overview
The image of the oven continues, now describing hearts inflamed with conspiracy and plotting that erupts into action. Their inner passions for violence and treachery only need time to ignite. This depiction of premeditated evil shows that sin's problem lies in the heart, the very place the gospel promises to transform.
Cross-references & the web
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- Mic 2:1Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
- Ps 10:8–9He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.
- Hos 7:7All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me.
- 1 Sam 19:11–15Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”
- Hos 7:4They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.
- Prov 4:16For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
- 2 Sam 13:28–29Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valiant!”
- Ps 21:9You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will consume them.
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