Hosea 8:7

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

For they sow the wind, and they reap the storm wind. A stalk is not to him; the bud shall make no flour. If it does make it, strangers will swallow it up.

Cross References

Genesis 41:23

And, behold, seven ears, withered, lean, blasted by the east wind, sprouting forth after them.

2 Kings 15:19

Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave a thousand talents of silver to Pul, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.

2 Kings 15:29

In the days of Pekah the king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser the king of Assyria came and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and removed them to Assyria.

Job 4:8

As I have seen, the ones plowing iniquity and sowing trouble; they harvest it.

Proverbs 22:8

He who sows injustice will reap sorrow, and the rod of his wrath shall cease.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

And this also is an evil thing which makes one to be sick, that in all, as he came, so shall he go. And what profit is to him who has labored for the wind?

Isaiah 17:11

In the day of your planting you fence it in; in the morning you make your seed sprout; the harvest is a heap in the day of sickness and incurable pain.

Isaiah 55:2

Why do you weigh out silver for that which is not bread, and your labor for what is not to satisfaction? Listening, listen to Me and eat the good; and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Isaiah 66:15

For, behold, Jehovah will come with fire and His chariots like the tempest, to return His wrath in fury, and His rebuke in flames of fire.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat, but they have reaped thorns. They are exhausted, but they do not profit. And they shall be ashamed of your harvests, because of the anger of the anger of the face of Jehovah.

Lamentations 5:2

Our inheritance has been turned to aliens, our houses to foreigners.

Hosea 2:9

So I will return and take My grain in its time, and My wine in its season. And I will snatch away My wool and My flax she uses to cover her shamelessness.

Hosea 7:9

Strangers have eaten up his strength, and he does not know. Yea, gray hairs are sprinkled on him, and he does not know.

Hosea 9:16

Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit. Yea, though they bear, yet I will kill the delight of their womb.

Nahum 1:3

Jehovah is long to anger, and is great of power, and acquiting He does not acquit the guilty. Jehovah has His way in the tempest and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of His feet.

Haggai 1:6

You have sown much, and brought in little; you eat, but not to satiety; you drink, but not to be filled; you dress, but there is no warmth to one. And one hiring out himself hires out himself for a bag of holes.

Galatians 6:7

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked. For whatever a man may sow, that he also will reap.

Galatians 6:8

For the one sowing to his own flesh will reap corruption of the flesh. But the one sowing to the Spirit will reap everlasting life of the Spirit.

Deuteronomy 28:33

The fruit of your ground, and all your labor, shall be eaten up by a nation which you do not know. And you shall always be oppressed and crushed.