Hosea 8:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. It has no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal. If it does yield, strangers shall swallow it up.

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  • Prov 22:8 : 8 He who sows iniquity shall reap vanity, and the rod of his anger shall fail.
  • Hos 7:9 : 9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he does not know it: yes, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he does not know it.
  • Job 4:8 : 8 Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same.
  • Gal 6:7 : 7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap.
  • Hos 10:12-13 : 12 Sow for yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and rains righteousness on you. 13 You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies: because you trusted in your own way, in the multitude of your mighty men.
  • Nah 1:3 : 3 The LORD is slow to anger and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
  • Eccl 5:16 : 16 And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit has he who has labored for the wind?
  • Isa 17:11 : 11 In the day you shall make your plant to grow, and in the morning you shall make your seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and desperate sorrow.
  • Isa 66:15 : 15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
  • Jer 12:13 : 13 They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns; they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit. And they shall be ashamed of your harvests because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
  • Hos 2:9 : 9 Therefore I will return, and take away my grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.
  • Deut 28:33 : 33 The fruit of your land, and all your labors, shall a nation which you know not eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always:
  • Judg 6:3-6 : 3 And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them; 4 And they encamped against them, and destroyed the produce of the earth till you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey. 5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as locusts in multitude; for both they and their camels were without number, and they entered into the land to destroy it. 6 And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites, and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD.
  • 2 Kgs 13:3-7 : 3 The anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad, the son of Hazael, all their days. 4 Jehoahaz sought the LORD, and the LORD listened to him, for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them. 5 The LORD gave Israel a savior, so that they escaped from the hand of the Syrians; and the children of Israel lived in their tents as before. 6 Nevertheless, they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked in them, and the Asherah pole also remained in Samaria. 7 He left to Jehoahaz of the people only fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers; for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust by threshing.
  • 2 Kgs 15:19 : 19 And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
  • 2 Kgs 15:29 : 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.

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