Hosea 8:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Indeed, they sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. There is no standing corn; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it did, foreigners would swallow it up.

Cross References

Proverbs 22:8

The one who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

Job 4:8

In my experience, those who plough injustice and those who sow trouble  reap the same.

Galatians 6:7

Don’t be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a person sows he will also reap,

Nahum 1:3

The Lord is slow to anger but great in power; the Lord will never leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath his feet.

Hosea 7:9

Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with grey, but he does not notice.

Hosea 2:9

Therefore, I will take back my grain in its time and my new wine in its season; I will take away my wool and linen, which were to cover her nakedness.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves but have no profit. Be put to shame by your harvests because of the  Lord’s burning anger.

Isaiah 66:15

Look, the Lord will come with fire   – his chariots are like the whirlwind   – to execute his anger with fury and his rebuke with flames of fire.

Isaiah 17:11

On the day that you plant, you will help them to grow, and in the morning you will help your seed to sprout, but the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

This too is a sickening tragedy: exactly as he comes, so he will go. What does the one gain  who struggles for the wind?

2 Kings 15:29

In the days of King Pekah of Israel, King Tiglath-pileser  of Assyria came and captured Ijon,  Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee #– #all the land of Naphtali   #– #and deported the people to Assyria.

2 Kings 15:19

King Pul  , of Assyria invaded the land, so Menahem gave Pul 35 tonnes  of silver so that Pul would support him to strengthen his grasp on the kingdom.

Deuteronomy 28:33

A people you don’t know will eat your land’s produce and everything you have laboured for. You will only be oppressed and crushed continually.

Galatians 6:8

because the one who sows to his flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit  will reap eternal life  from the Spirit.

Isaiah 55:2

Why do you spend silver on what is not food, and your wages on what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and you will enjoy the choicest of foods.

Lamentations 5:2

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

Hosea 9:16

Ephraim  is struck down; their roots are withered; they cannot bear fruit. Even if they bear children, I will kill the precious offspring of their wombs.

Haggai 1:6

You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough to be satisfied. You drink but never have enough to be happy. You put on clothes but never have enough to get warm. The wage earner puts his wages into a bag with a hole in it.’

Genesis 41:23

After them, seven ears of corn #– #withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind #– #sprouted up.