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Hosea 8:7

Contemporary English Version 1995

If you scatter wind instead of wheat, you will harvest a whirlwind and have no wheat. Even if you harvest grain, enemies will steal it all.

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Troublemakers get in trouble, and their terrible anger will get them nowhere.

In my experience, only those who plant seeds of evil harvest trouble,

You cannot fool God, so don't make a fool of yourself! You will harvest what you plant.

The Lord is powerful, yet patient; he makes sure that the guilty are always punished. He can be seen in storms and in whirlwinds; clouds are the dust from his feet.

They don't seem to realize how weak and feeble they are; their hair has turned gray, while foreigners rule.

So I'll hold back the harvest of grain and grapes. I'll take back my wool and my linen that cover her body.

My people, you planted wheat, but because I was furious, I let only weeds grow. You wore yourselves out and gained only shame!

The Lord will come down like a whirlwind with his flaming chariots. He will be furiously angry and punish his enemies with fire.

The plants may sprout and blossom that very same morning, but it will do you no good, because you will suffer endless agony.

That's terribly unfair. They leave the world just as they came. They gained nothing from running after the wind.

During Pekah's rule, King Tiglath Pileser of Assyria marched into Israel. He captured the territories of Gilead and Galilee, including the towns of Ijon, Abel-Bethmaacah, Janoah, Kedesh, and Hazor, as well as the entire territory of Naphtali. Then he took Israelites from those regions to Assyria as prisoners.

During Menahem's rule, King Tiglath Pileser of Assyria invaded Israel. He agreed to help Menahem keep control of his kingdom, if Menahem would pay him over 34 tons of silver.

You will work hard on your farms, but everything you harvest will be eaten by foreigners, who will mistreat you and abuse you for the rest of your life.

If you follow your selfish desires, you will harvest destruction, but if you follow the Spirit, you will harvest eternal life.

Why waste your money on what really isn't food? Why work hard for something that doesn't satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and you will enjoy the very best foods.

Foreigners and strangers have taken our land and our homes.

Israel, you are a vine with dried-up roots and fruitless branches. Even if you had more children and loved them dearly, I would slaughter them all.

You harvest less than you plant, you never have enough to eat or drink, your clothes don't keep you warm, and your wages are stored in bags full of holes.

Then seven other heads of grain came up. They were thin and scorched by a wind from the desert.




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