Hosea 8:7

Modern English Version

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no head and will yield no flour. If it were to yield, foreigners would swallow it up.

Cross References

Genesis 41:23

Then seven ears, thin and scorched by the east wind, sprang up after them.

2 Kings 15:19

Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that he might help him strengthen his control of the kingdom.

2 Kings 15:29

In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel of Beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, Galilee, and all the land of Naphtali, and then exiled them to Assyria.

Job 4:8

Just like I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble, reap the same.

Proverbs 22:8

He who sows injustice will reap iniquity, and the rod of his wrath will disappear.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

And this also is a grave misery: As he entered, so will he leave; what benefit is there to the one who toils for the wind?

Isaiah 17:11

in the day that you plant it, you carefully fence it in, and in the morning you make your seed to flourish; but the harvest shall be a heap of ruins in the day of grief and desperate pain.

Isaiah 55:2

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in abundance.

Isaiah 66:15

For behold, the Lord shall come with fire, and with His chariots like a whirlwind, to render His anger with fury and His rebuke with flames of fire.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat, but reap thorns; they have strained themselves, but shall not profit. And they shall be ashamed of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

Lamentations 5:2

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

Hosea 2:9

Therefore I will take back My grain in its time and My wine in its season, and I will recover My wool and My flax, given to cover her nakedness.

Hosea 7:9

Foreigners devour his strength, but he does not know it. Gray hairs are here and there upon him, but he does not know it.

Hosea 9:16

Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, I will slay the beloved offspring of their womb.

Nahum 1:3

the Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and the Lord will in no way acquit the guilty. In gale winds and a storm is His way, and clouds are the dust of His feet.

Haggai 1:6

You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you do not have enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes.

Galatians 6:7

Be not deceived. God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, that will he 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 nation that you do not know will consume the produce of your land and all your labors, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed all the time.