Hosea 8:7

Bible in Basic English 1965

For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.

Cross References

Genesis 41:23

And then I saw seven other heads, dry, thin, and wasted by the east wind, coming up after them:

2 Kings 15:19

In his day, Pul, the king of Assyria, came up against the land; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver so that he might let him keep the kingdom.

2 Kings 15:29

In the days of Pekah, king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, came and took Ijon and Abel-beth-maacah and Janoah and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee and all the land of Naphtali; and he took the people away to Assyria.

Job 4:8

What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.

Proverbs 22:8

By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?

Isaiah 17:11

In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.

Isaiah 55:2

Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.

Isaiah 66:15

For the Lord is coming with fire, and his war-carriages will be like the storm-wind; to give punishment in the heat of his wrath, and his passion is like flames of fire.

Jeremiah 12:13

Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

Lamentations 5:2

Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.

Hosea 2:9

So I will take away again my grain in its time and my wine, and I will take away my wool and my linen with which her body might have been covered.

Hosea 7:9

Men from other lands have made waste his strength, and he is not conscious of it; grey hairs have come on him here and there, and he has no knowledge of it.

Hosea 9:16

The rod has come on Ephraim, their root is dry, let them have no fruit; even though they give birth, I will put to death the dearest fruit of their bodies.

Nahum 1:3

The Lord is slow to get angry and great in power, and will not let the sinner go without punishment: the way of the Lord is in the wind and the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

Haggai 1:6

Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.

Galatians 6:7

Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.

Galatians 6:8

Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.

Deuteronomy 28:33

The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever: