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
I said: Plow new ground for yourselves, plant righteousness, and reap the blessings that your devotion to me will produce. It is time for you to turn to me, Jehovah, and I will come and pour out righteousness on you.
Job 4:8
When I saw those who plowed wickedness and planted misery, they gathered its harvest.
Proverbs 22:8
He who sows unrighteousness will reap vanity. The rod of his anger will fail.
Ecclesiastes 5:16
This also is a serious evil. Just as we came we will go. Whatever profit or gain we earned we loose as if we labored for the wind.
Galatians 6:7
Do not be deceived. God is not mocked! A man will harvest what he sows.
It hath
Isaiah 17:11
In that day you will make your plant grow. In the morning you will make your seed flourish; but the harvest will be a heap of ruins in the day of grief and desperate sorrow.
Jeremiah 12:13
My people planted wheat. They gathered weeds! They worked hard and got nothing for it. Because of my fierce anger their crops have failed.
The strangers
Hosea 7:9
Foreigners are using up your strength, but you do not realize it. You have become a gray-haired, old man, but you do not realize it.
Deuteronomy 28:33
A foreign nation will take all the crops that you have worked so hard to grow. You will receive nothing but constant oppression and harsh treatment.
Judges 6:3
When the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites and the Amalekites along with the desert tribes attacked them.
2 Kings 13:3
The wrath of Jehovah burned against Israel! He gave them up into the power of Hazael, king of Aram, and into the power of Benhadad, the son of Hazael, again and again.
2 Kings 15:19
Pul king of Assyria came against the land. Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver to let him keep the kingdom.