Hosea 8:7 meaning and explanation
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
Hosea 8:7, Berean Standard Bible
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Hosea is speaking to the northern kingdom of Israel in the eighth century BC, announcing the consequences of covenant unfaithfulness. The proverb is agricultural: a farmer who sows wind cannot expect a harvest of grain.
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