Reference

Hosea 7:6

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.
4

They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

5

In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

6

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.

7

They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.

8

Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

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Death as Sleep
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Death as Sleep

The verse describes a baker sleeping, which is a literal act of sleeping, not a metaphorical representation of death. The primary focus of the verse is on the heart being like an oven and the burning fire, not on the state of the baker's sleep as a metaphor for death.