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Hosea 8:7 KJV
Hosea · chapter 8 · verse 7
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.Hosea 8:7 · King James Version
Hosea 8:7 in context
5Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
6For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
7For 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.
8Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
9For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
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Key words (Strong's)
- whirlwindçûwphâha hurricaneH5492 →
- strangerszûwrto turn asideH2114 →
- stalkqâmâhsomething that risesH7054 →
- yieldʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →
- sownzâraʻto sowH2232 →
- windrûwachwindH7307 →
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The reproofs and threatenings here are introduced with an order to the prophet to set the trumpet to his mouth (Hos 8:1), thus to call a solemn assembly, that all might take notice of what he had to deliver and take warning by it. He must sound an alarm, must, in God's name, proclaim war with this rebellious nation.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-7