Hosea 8:7

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.

Cross References (16)

  • Proverbs 22:8 (14)

    He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

  • Job 4:8 (9)

    As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

  • Galatians 6:7 (7)

    Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.

  • Nahum 1:3 (5)

    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

  • Judges 6:3–6 (4)

    Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and

  • Hosea 7:9 (4)

    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 (4)

    Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to

  • Isaiah 66:15 (3)

    For behold, the LORD will come with fire—His chariots are like a whirlwind—to execute His anger with fury and His rebuke

  • Jeremiah 12:13 (3)

    They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest be

  • Hosea 2:9 (3)

    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

  • 2 Kings 13:3–7 (2)

    So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He delivered them continually into the hands of Hazael king of Aram

  • Deuteronomy 28:33 (2)

    A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and

  • Isaiah 17:11 (2)

    though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout—yet the harvest will vanis

  • 2 Kings 15:19 (2)

    Then Pul king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver in order to gain his suppor

  • 2 Kings 15:29 (2)

    In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, K

  • Ecclesiastes 5:16 (2)

    This too is a grievous affliction: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wi