Hosea 8:7

Good News Translation (US Version)

When they sow the wind, they will reap a storm! A field of grain that doesn't ripen can never produce any bread. But even if it did, foreigners would eat it up.

Cross References

Proverbs 22:8

If you plant the seeds of injustice, disaster will spring up, and your oppression of others will end.

Job 4:8

I have seen people plow fields of evil and plant wickedness like seed; now they harvest wickedness and evil.

Galatians 6:7

Do not deceive yourselves; no one makes a fool of God. You will reap exactly what you plant.

Nahum 1:3

The Lord does not easily become angry, but he is powerful and never lets the guilty go unpunished. Where the Lord walks, storms arise; the clouds are the dust raised by his feet!

Hosea 7:9

and do not realize that this reliance on foreigners has robbed them of their strength. Their days are numbered, but they don't even know it.

Hosea 2:9

So at harvest time I will take back my gifts of grain and wine, and will take away the wool and the linen I gave her for clothing.

Jeremiah 12:13

My people planted wheat, but gathered weeds; they have worked hard, but got nothing for it. Because of my fierce anger their crops have failed.”

Isaiah 66:15

The Lord will come with fire. He will ride on the wings of a storm to punish those he is angry with.

Isaiah 17:11

But even if they sprouted and blossomed the very morning you planted them, there would still be no harvest. There would be only trouble and incurable pain.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

It isn't right! We go just as we came. We labor, trying to catch the wind, and what do we get?

2 Kings 15:29

It was while Pekah was king that Tiglath Pileser, the emperor of Assyria, captured the cities of Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, and Hazor, and the territories of Gilead, Galilee, and Naphtali, and took the people to Assyria as prisoners.

2 Kings 15:19

Tiglath Pileser, the emperor of Assyria, invaded Israel, and Menahem gave him thirty-eight tons of silver to gain his support in strengthening Menahem's power over the country.

Deuteronomy 28:33

A foreign nation will take all the crops that you have worked so hard to grow, while you receive nothing but constant oppression and harsh treatment.

Galatians 6:8

If you plant in the field of your natural desires, from it you will gather the harvest of death; if you plant in the field of the Spirit, from the Spirit you will gather the harvest of eternal life.

Isaiah 55:2

Why spend money on what does not satisfy? Why spend your wages and still be hungry? Listen to me and do what I say, and you will enjoy the best food of all.

Lamentations 5:2

Our property is in the hands of strangers; foreigners are living in our homes.

Hosea 9:16

The people of Israel are like a plant whose roots have dried up and which bears no fruit. They will have no children, but even if they did, I would kill the children so dear to them.”

Haggai 1:6

You have planted much grain, but have harvested very little. You have food to eat, but not enough to make you full. You have wine to drink, but not enough to get drunk on! You have clothing, but not enough to keep you warm. And workers cannot earn enough to live on.

Genesis 41:23

Then seven heads of grain sprouted, thin and scorched by the desert wind,