Hosea 8:7

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.

Sown

Galatians 6:7

It hath

Isaiah 17:11

Jeremiah 12:13

The strangers

2 Kings 15:19

Bible References

Sown

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he comes and rains righteousness upon you.

Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

He that sows iniquity shall reap trouble: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

And this also is a great evil, that just as he came, so shall he go: and what profit has he who has labored for the wind?

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap.

It hath

In the day shall you make your plant to grow, and in the morning shall you make your seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap of ruins in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

The strangers

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knows it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knows not.

The fruit of your land, and all your labors, shall a nation which you know not eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually:

And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;

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 Ben-hadad the son of Hazael, all their days.

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.