Hosea 8:7

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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

that they might sow unto righteousness, and reap the fruits of well doing: that they might plow up their fresh land and seek the LORD, till he came, and learned them righteousness.

For, as I have proved by experience, they that plow iniquity and sow wretchedness, reap the same.

He that soweth wickedness shall reap sorrow; and the rod of his plague shall destroy him.

This is a miserable plague, that he shall go away even as he came. What helpeth him then, that he hath labored in the wind?

Be not deceived, God is not mocked. For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he reap.

It hath

In the day when thou didst plant it, it was great, and gave soon the fruit of thy seed: But in the day of harvest, thou shalt reap a heap of sorrows and miseries.

They shall sow wheat, and reap thorns. They shall take heritage in possession, but it shall do them no good. And ye shall be confounded of your own winnings, because of the great wrath of the LORD."

The strangers

Strangers have devoured his strength, yet he regardeth it not: he waxeth full of gray hairs, yet will he not know it.

The fruit of thy land and all thy labours shall a nation eat, which thou knowest not; and thou shalt but suffer violence only and be oppressed always,

For when Israel had sown then came the Midianites, the Amalekites, and they of the east country upon them and pitched their tents against them,

Wherefore, the LORD was angry with Israel, and delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael all their days.

And Pul, king of Assyria, came upon the land. And Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, to help him to establish his kingdom.