Hosea 8:7

New American Bible - revised edition

When they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind; The stalk of grain that forms no head can yield no flour; Even if it could, strangers would swallow it.

Cross References

Proverbs 22:8

Those who sow iniquity reap calamity, and the rod used in anger will fail.

Job 4:8

As I see it, those who plow mischief and sow trouble will reap them.

Galatians 6:7

Make no mistake: God is not mocked, for a person will reap only what he sows,

Nahum 1:3

The Lord is slow to anger, yet great in power; the Lord will not leave the guilty unpunished. In stormwind and tempest he comes, and clouds are the dust at his feet;

Hosea 7:9

Strangers have consumed his strength, but he does not know it; Gray hairs are strewn on his head, but he takes no notice of it.

Hosea 2:9

If she runs after her lovers, she will not overtake them; if she seeks them she will not find them. Then she will say, “I will go back to my first husband, for I was better off then than now.”

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat and reaped thorns, they have tired themselves out for no purpose; They are shamed by their harvest, the burning anger of the Lord. Judah’s Neighbors.

Isaiah 66:15

For see, the Lord will come in fire, his chariots like the stormwind; To wreak his anger in burning rage and his rebuke in fiery flames.

Isaiah 17:11

Though you make them grow the day you plant them and make them blossom the morning you set them out, The harvest shall disappear on a day of sickness and incurable pain.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

All their days they eat in gloom with great vexation, sickness and resentment.

2 Kings 15:29

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

2 Kings 15:19

Pul, king of Assyria, came against the land. But Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver to have his help in holding onto his kingdom.

Deuteronomy 28:33

A people you do not know will consume the fruit of your soil and of all your labor, and you will be thoroughly oppressed and continually crushed,

Galatians 6:8

because the one who sows for his flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows for the spirit will reap eternal life from the spirit.

Isaiah 55:2

Why spend your money for what is not bread; your wages for what does not satisfy? Only listen to me, and you shall eat well, you shall delight in rich fare.

Lamentations 5:2

Our heritage is turned over to strangers, our homes, to foreigners.

Hosea 9:16

Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up; they will bear no fruit. Were they to bear children, I would slay the beloved of their womb.

Haggai 1:6

You have sown much, but have brought in little; you have eaten, but have not been satisfied; You have drunk, but have not become intoxicated; you have clothed yourselves, but have not been warmed; And the hired worker labors for a bag full of holes.

Genesis 41:23

Behind them sprouted seven ears of grain, shriveled and thin and scorched by the east wind;