wind. Hebrew. ruach. App-9.
the bud... meal. Note the Figure of speech Paronomasia (App-6), for emphasis. Hebrew. zemach... kemach. It may be Englished: "the flower will yield no flour ".
strangers. outsiders. Compare Hosea 7:9.
Related Commentaries of Hosea 8:7
Hosea 8:7
7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk:a the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.