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Because they sow the wind,
    they will reap the whirlwind.
    The standing grain forms no heads,
    so it will yield no flour.
    Even if it would yield flour, foreigners would swallow it up.
Israel is swallowed up.
    Now among the nations they are like a pot no one wants.

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Because they sow the wind,
    they will reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain does not have heads;[a]
    it will not yield flour.
And if it would yield,
    strangers would devour it.
Israel is swallowed up;
    now they are among the nations,
        like an object that no one desires.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 8:7 Hebrew “head”