⁶ Their hearts are like an oven;^(A)
    they approach him with intrigue.
Their passion smolders all night;
    in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

⁷ All of them are hot as an oven;
    they devour their rulers.
All their kings fall,^(A)
    and none of them calls^(B) on me.

⁴ They are all adulterers,^(A)
    burning like an oven
whose fire the baker need not stir
    from the kneading of the dough till it rises.

¹⁶ For they cannot rest until they do evil;^(A)
    they are robbed of sleep till they make someone stumble.

⁸ He lies in wait^(A) near the villages;
    from ambush he murders the innocent.^(B)
His eyes watch in secret for his victims;
⁹     like a lion in cover he lies in wait.
He lies in wait to catch the helpless;^(C)
    he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.^(D)

⁹ When you appear for battle,
    you will burn them up as in a blazing furnace.
The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath,
    and his fire will consume them.^(A)