for they sowed blighted [seed], and their destruction shall await them, a sheaf of corn that avails not to make meal; and even if it should produce it, strangers shall devour it.
KJV
Hosea 8:7
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.
Parallel Translations
for they sowed blighted [seed], and their destruction shall await them, a sheaf of corn that avails not to make meal; and even if it should produce it, strangers shall devour it.
For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
Cross References
Proverbs 22:8Job 4:8Galatians 6:7Nahum 1:3Judges 6:3–6Hosea 7:9Hosea 10:12–13Jeremiah 12:13Isaiah 66:15Hosea 2:92 Kings 13:3–7Deuteronomy 28:332 Kings 15:192 Kings 15:29Ecclesiastes 5:16
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