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 yourselves unto righteousness, reap yourselves unto mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is the time to seek the LORD until he comes and teaches you righteousness.
Job 4:8
Even as I have seen, those that plow iniquity and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Proverbs 22:8
He that sows iniquity shall reap iniquity, and the rod of his anger shall fail.
Ecclesiastes 5:16
And this also is a sore evil; that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit has he that has laboured for the wind?
Galatians 6:7
Do not deceive yourselves; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows that shall he also reap.
It hath
Isaiah 17:11
In the day that thou shalt plant them, thou shalt make them to grow and shalt make thy seed to flourish early; but in the day of gathering, the harvest shall flee and shall be desperate sorrow.
Jeremiah 12:13
They have sown bread, but shall reap thorns; they had the heritage, but they did not profit; and they shall be ashamed because of your fruits, by the fierce anger of the LORD.
The strangers
Hosea 7:9
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he does not know it; yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he does not understand.
Deuteronomy 28:33
The fruit of thy land and all thy labours shall a people which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt only be oppressed and crushed all the days.
Judges 6:3
For when those of Israel had sown, the Midianites would come up and the Amalekites and the sons of the east. They would come up against them
2 Kings 13:3
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael, king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad, the son of Hazael, all their days.
2 Kings 15:19
And Pul, the king of Assyria, came against the land; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.