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

Sow for yourselves in righteousness, Reap according to loving-kindness, Till for yourselves tillage of knowledge, To seek Jehovah, Till he come and shew righteousness to you.

As I have seen -- ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!

Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.

And this also is a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage is to him who laboureth for wind?

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow -- that also he shall reap,

It hath

In the day thy plant thou causest to become great, And in the morning thy seed makest to flourish, A heap is the harvest in a day of overflowing, And of mortal pain.

They sowed wheat, and have thorns reaped, They have become sick -- they profit not, And they have been ashamed of your increases, Because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah.

The strangers

Devoured have strangers his power, And he hath not known, Also old age hath sprinkled itself on him, And he hath not known.

The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labour, eat up doth a people whom thou hast not known; and thou hast been only oppressed and bruised all the days;

And it hath been, if Israel hath sowed, that Midian hath come up, and Amalek, and the sons of the east, yea, they have come up against him,

and the anger of Jehovah burneth against Israel, and He giveth them into the hand of Hazael king of Aram, and into the hand of Ben-Hadad son of Hazael, all the days.

Pul king of Asshur hath come against the land, and Menahem giveth to Pul a thousand talents of silver, for his hand being with him to strengthen the kingdom in his hand.