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 righteousness for yourselves, reap unfailing love. Break up the unplowed ground for yourselves, for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers deliverance on you.
Job 4:8
Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
Proverbs 22:8
The one who sows iniquity will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will end.
Ecclesiastes 5:16
This is another misfortune: Just as he came, so will he go. What did he gain from toiling for the wind?
Galatians 6:7
Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows,
It hath
Isaiah 17:11
The day you begin cultivating, you do what you can to make it grow; the morning you begin planting, you do what you can to make it sprout. Yet the harvest will disappear in the day of disease and incurable pain.
Jeremiah 12:13
My people will sow wheat, but will harvest weeds. They will work until they are exhausted, but will get nothing from it. They will be disappointed in their harvests because the Lord will take them away in his fierce anger.
The strangers
Hosea 7:9
Foreigners are consuming what his strenuous labor produced, but he does not recognize it! His head is filled with gray hair, but he does not realize it!
Deuteronomy 28:33
As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.
Judges 6:3
Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east would attack them.
2 Kings 13:3
The Lord was furious with Israel and handed them over to King Hazael of Syria and to Hazael's son Ben Hadad for many years.
2 Kings 15:19
Pul king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem paid him a thousand talents of silver to gain his support and to solidify his control of the kingdom.