Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
It hath
The strangers
Bible References
Sown
Hosea 10:12
Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the LORD, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.
Job 4:8
As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.
Proverbs 22:8
Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.
Ecclesiastes 5:16
This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what gain is there to him who toils for the wind?
Galatians 6:7
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
It hath
Isaiah 17:11
though you make them grow on the day that you plant them, and make them blossom in the morning that you sow, yet the harvest will flee away in a day of grief and incurable pain.
Jeremiah 12:13
They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns; they have tired themselves out but profit nothing. They shall be ashamed of their harvests because of the fierce anger of the LORD."
The strangers
Hosea 7:9
Strangers devour his strength, and he knows it not; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, and he knows it not.
Deuteronomy 28:33
A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually,
Judges 6:3
For whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them.
2 Kings 13:3
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he gave them continually into the hand of Hazael king of Syria and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael.
2 Kings 15:19
Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that he might help him to confirm his hold on the royal power.