Hosea 8:7

Legacy Standard Bible

For they sow the wind, And they reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no growth; It makes no flour. Should it make anything, strangers would swallow it up.

Cross References

Genesis 41:23

and behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up after them;

2 Kings 15:19

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

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, all the land of Naphtali; and he took them away into exile to Assyria.

Job 4:8

“According to what I have seen, those who plow wickedness And those who sow trouble harvest it.

Proverbs 22:8

He who sows unrighteousness will reap iniquity, And the rod of his fury will end.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

This also is a sickening evil—exactly as a man came, so will he go. So what is the advantage to him who labors for the wind?

Isaiah 17:11

In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in, And in the morning you cause your seed to flourish; But the harvest will be a heap In a day of sickliness and incurable pain.

Isaiah 55:2

“Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, And delight your soul in richness.

Isaiah 66:15

For behold, Yahweh will come in fire And His chariots like the whirlwind, To return His anger with wrath, And His rebuke with flames of fire.

Jeremiah 12:13

“They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns; They have strained themselves to no profit. But be ashamed of your produce Because of the burning anger of Yahweh.”

Lamentations 5:2

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

Hosea 2:9

“Therefore, I will take back My grain at harvest time And My new wine in its season. I will also deliver My wool and My flax from them Given to cover her nakedness.

Hosea 7:9

Strangers devour his power, Yet he does not know it; Gray hairs also are sprinkled on him, Yet he does not know it.

Hosea 9:16

Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up; They will bear no fruit. Even though they bear children, I will put to death the desirable ones of their womb.

Nahum 1:3

Yahweh is slow to anger and great in power, And Yahweh will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. In whirlwind and storm is His way, And clouds are the dust beneath His feet.

Haggai 1:6

You have sown much, but bring in little; you eat, but there is not enough to be satisfied; you drink, but there is not enough to become drunk; you put on clothing, but no one is warm enough; and he who earns, earns wages to put into a bag with holes.”

Galatians 6:7

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.

Galatians 6:8

For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Deuteronomy 28:33

A people whom you do not know shall eat up the produce of your ground and all your labors, and you will never be anything but oppressed and crushed all your days.