Hosea 8:7

Translations

Modern

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.

Traditional

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

Literal

For the wind they sow and they shall reap the whirlwind. The stalk is not unto it, a shoot not yielding flour; even if it should produce, strangers would swallow it up!

Latin

Quia ventum seminabunt, et turbinem metent: culmus stans non est in eo; germen non faciet farinam: quod etsi fecerit, alieni comedent eam.

Original

Hebrew

English

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.

Notes

Hosea 8:7

When Hosea announced God's judgment, the punishment fit the crime (see study note on Hosea 4:10). Through their idol worship and political schemes, the Israelites caused their own downfall (see Galatians 6:7).

Theme notes and profiles

Counsel from Others

Events

Prophecies of Hoseac. 785 BC

Related verses

Proverbs 22:8
He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
Job 4:8
As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
Galatians 6:7
Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.
Nahum 1:3
The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.
Judges 6:3–6
Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,
Hosea 7:9
Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.
Hosea 10:12–13
Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.
Jeremiah 12:13
They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”
Hosea 2:9
Therefore I will take back My grain in its time and My new wine in its season; I will take away My wool and linen, which were given to cover her nakedness.
Isaiah 66:15
For behold, the LORD will come with fire—His chariots are like a whirlwind—to execute His anger with fury and His rebuke with flames of fire.
Isaiah 17:11
…though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout—yet the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.
2 Kings 13:3–7
So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He delivered them continually into the hands of Hazael king of Aram and his son Ben-hadad.

Glossary

Hosea, Book of Whirlwind

Topics

Idolatry: Punishment of Banishment Idolatry: Warnings Against, and Punishments of Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena: General Scriptures Concerning Reaping What you Sow Reaping: Receiving the Reward of Wickedness Sin: Fruits of Sower: Figurative Sowing and Reaping The Wind: (Sowing) a Course of Sin Whirlwind of the Fruits of Unrighteousness Whirlwind: Illustrative of The: Unavoidable Fruit of a Life of Sin and Vanity

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