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.
Proverbs 22:8
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- Proverbs 22:8 trouble
Job 4:8
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8 Even as I have seen,
(A)Those who plow iniquity
And sow trouble reap the same.
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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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 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.
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
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.
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
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 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?
2 Kings 15:29
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29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel, [a]Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria (A)came and took (B)Ijon, Abel Beth Maachah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he (C)carried them captive to Assyria.
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- 2 Kings 15:29 A later name of Pul, v. 19
2 Kings 15:19
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19 (A)Pul[a] king of Assyria came against the land; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his [b]hand might be with him to (B)strengthen the kingdom under his control.
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- 2 Kings 15:19 Tiglath-Pileser III, v. 29
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2 Kings 13:3-7
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3 Then (A)the anger of the Lord was aroused against Israel, and He delivered them into the hand of (B)Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of (C)Ben-Hadad the son of Hazael, all their days. 4 So Jehoahaz (D)pleaded with the Lord, and the Lord listened to him; for (E)He saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them. 5 (F)Then the Lord gave Israel a deliverer, so that they escaped from under the hand of the Syrians; and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents as before. 6 Nevertheless they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who had made Israel sin, but walked in them; (G)and the [a]wooden image also remained in Samaria. 7 For He left of the army of Jehoahaz only fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers; for the king of Syria had destroyed them (H)and made them (I)like the dust at threshing.
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- 2 Kings 13:6 Heb. Asherah, a Canaanite goddess
Deuteronomy 28:33
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33 A nation whom you have not known shall eat (A)the fruit of your land and the produce of your labor, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually.
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