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.

Bible References

Sown

Hosea 10:12
Sow righteousness for yourselves
and reap faithful love;
break up your unplowed ground.
It is time to seek the Lord
until He comes and sends righteousness
on you like the rain.
Job 4:8
In my experience, those who plow injustice
and those who sow trouble reap the same.
Proverbs 22:8
The one who sows injustice will reap disaster,
and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
Ecclesiastes 5:16
This too is a sickening tragedy: exactly as he comes, so he will go. What does the one gain who struggles for the wind?
Galatians 6:7
Don’t be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows he will also reap,

It hath

Isaiah 17:11
On the day that you plant,
you will help them to grow,
and in the morning
you will help your seed to sprout,
but the harvest will vanish
on the day of disease and incurable pain.
Jeremiah 12:13
They have sown wheat but harvested thorns.
They have exhausted themselves but have no profit.
Be put to shame by your harvests
because of the Lord’s burning anger.

The strangers

Hosea 7:9
Foreigners consume his strength,
but he does not notice.
Even his hair is streaked with gray,
but he does not notice.
Deuteronomy 28:33
A people you don’t know will eat your land’s produce and everything you have labored for. You will only be oppressed and crushed continually.
Judges 6:3
Whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the Qedemites came and attacked them.
2 Kings 13:3
So the Lord’s anger burned against Israel, and He surrendered them to the power of Hazael king of Aram and his son Ben-hadad during their reigns.
2 Kings 15:19
Pul king of Assyria invaded the land, so Menahem gave Pul 75,000 pounds of silver so that Pul would support him to strengthen his grip on the kingdom.

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