Hosea 8:7
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7 “They(A) sow the wind,
And reap the whirlwind.
The stalk has no bud;
It shall never produce meal.
If it should produce,
(B)Aliens would swallow it up.
Hosea 8:7
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Proverbs 22:8
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- Proverbs 22:8 trouble
Proverbs 22:8
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Job 4:8
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8 Even as I have seen,
(A)Those who plow iniquity
And sow trouble reap the same.
Job 4:8
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Galatians 6:7
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7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for (A)whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
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Galatians 6:7
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Nahum 1:3
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(C)The Lord has His way
In the whirlwind and in the storm,
And the clouds are the dust of His feet.
Hosea 10:12-13
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12 Sow for yourselves righteousness;
Reap in mercy;
(A)Break up your fallow ground,
For it is time to seek the Lord,
Till He (B)comes and rains righteousness on you.
13 (C)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.
Hosea 10:12-13
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12 Sow(A) righteousness(B) for yourselves,
reap the fruit of unfailing love,
and break up your unplowed ground;(C)
for it is time to seek(D) the Lord,
until he comes
and showers his righteousness(E) on you.
13 But you have planted wickedness,
you have reaped evil,(F)
you have eaten the fruit of deception.(G)
Because you have depended on your own strength
and on your many warriors,(H)
Hosea 7:9
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9 (A)Aliens have devoured his strength,
But he does not know it;
Yes, gray hairs are here and there on him,
Yet he does not know it.
Hosea 7:9
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9 Foreigners sap his strength,(A)
but he does not realize it.
His hair is sprinkled with gray,
but he does not notice.
Judges 6:3-6
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3 So it was, whenever Israel had sown, Midianites would come up; also Amalekites and the (A)people of the East would come up against them. 4 Then they would encamp against them and (B)destroy the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep nor ox nor (C)donkey. 5 For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, coming in as numerous as locusts; both they and their camels were [a]without number; and they would enter the land to destroy it. 6 So Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites, and the children of Israel (D)cried out to the Lord.
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- Judges 6:5 innumerable
Judges 6:3-6
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3 Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites(A) and other eastern peoples(B) invaded the country. 4 They camped on the land and ruined the crops(C) all the way to Gaza(D) and did not spare a living thing for Israel, neither sheep nor cattle nor donkeys. 5 They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts.(E) It was impossible to count them or their camels;(F) they invaded the land to ravage it. 6 Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out(G) to the Lord for help.
Hosea 2:9
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9 “Therefore I will return and take away
My grain in its time
And My new wine in its season,
And will take back My wool and My linen,
Given to cover her nakedness.
Hosea 2:9
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Jeremiah 12:13
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13 (A)They have sown wheat but reaped thorns;
They have [a]put themselves to pain but do not profit.
But be ashamed of your harvest
Because of the fierce anger of the Lord.”
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- Jeremiah 12:13 Or strained
Jeremiah 12:13
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Isaiah 66:15
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15 (A)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.
Isaiah 66:15
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Isaiah 17:11
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11 In the day you will make your plant to grow,
And in the morning you will make your seed to flourish;
But the harvest will be a heap of ruins
In the day of grief and desperate sorrow.
Ecclesiastes 5:16
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16 And this also is a severe evil—
Just exactly as he came, so shall he go.
And (A)what profit has he (B)who has labored for the wind?
Ecclesiastes 5:16
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16 This too is a grievous evil:
As everyone comes, so they depart,
and what do they gain,
since they toil for the wind?(A)
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