“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.”
The image of the heart like an oven suggests that internal passions have been heated to a fever pitch, that the people are consumed by internal lusts and desires that drive them toward self-destructive behavior. The baker who sleeps while the fire burns suggests that despite inward corruption, Israel continues in complacency, unaware of the approaching danger. This verse combines images of internal heat with external unawareness, suggesting simultaneous corruption and blindness.
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