For with hearts like an oven (A)they approach their intrigue;
    all night their anger smolders;
    in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

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Woe to the Oppressors

(A)Woe to those who devise wickedness
    and work evil (B)on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
    because it is in the power of their hand.

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All of them are hot as an oven,
    and they devour their rulers.
All (A)their kings (B)have fallen,
    and none of them calls upon me.

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(A)They are all adulterers;
    they are like a heated oven
whose baker ceases to stir the fire,
    from the kneading of the dough
    until it is leavened.

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16 For they (A)cannot sleep unless they have done wrong;
    they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.

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He sits in ambush in the villages;
    in (A)hiding places he murders the innocent.
His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;
    he lurks in ambush like (B)a lion in his (C)thicket;
he (D)lurks that he may seize the poor;
    he seizes the poor when he draws him into his (E)net.

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28 Then Absalom commanded his servants, “Mark when Amnon's (A)heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Do not fear; have I not commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant.” 29 So the servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and each mounted his mule and fled.

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11 (A)Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David's wife, told him, “If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.” 12 (B)So Michal let David down through the window, and he fled away and escaped. 13 Michal took (C)an image[a] and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goats' hair at its head and covered it with the clothes. 14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.” 15 Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 19:13 Or a household god

You will make them as (A)a blazing oven
    when you appear.
The Lord will swallow them up in his (B)wrath,
    and (C)fire will consume them.

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