Hosea 8:7

2 Kings 13:3-7; 2 Kings 15:19; 2 Kings 15:29; Deuteronomy 28:33; Ecclesiastes 5:16; Galatians 6:7; Hosea 10:12; Hosea 7:9; Isaiah 17:11; Jeremiah 12:13; Job 4:8; Judges 6:3-6; Proverbs 22:8

Related Commentaries of Hosea 8:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind - “ They shall reap,” not merely as “they have sown,” but with an awful increase. T...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

For they have (f) sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers s...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Israel's Unsanctified National Life. Man-made kings, like man-made gods (the calf of Samaria), are impotent; Israel sows the wind and shall reap th...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

wind. Hebrew. ruach. App-9. the bud... meal. Note the Figure of speech Paronomasia (App-6), for emphasis. Hebrew. zemach ... kemach. It m...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet here shows by another figure how unprofitably the Israelites exercised themselves in their perverted worship, and then how vainly t...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1164 THE CONSEQUENCES OF SIN Hosea 8:7 . They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind . MISERY is attached to sin as i...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For they have sown the wind, &c.— Because they have sown the wind, they shall reap the whirlwind: The stalk shall be without grain: It shall y...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers s...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Long-merited Retribution The enemy is coming immediately to destroy their temples and palaces and desolate the land, and as a punishment for t...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The wind ] i.e. idolatry. It.. stalk] RV 'he hath no standing corn,' as the result of his sowing. The bud] RV 'The blade.' If so be.. up ] Agai...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Wind... whirlwind . — The great law of Divine retribution, the punishment for sin being often a greater facility in sinning — indifference to God be...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1-19 ; Hosea 5:1-15 ; Hosea 6:1-11 ; Hosea 7:1-16 ; Hosea 8:1-14 ; Hosea 9:1-17 ; Hosea 10:1-15 ; Hosea...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2. ARTIFICIAL KINGS AND ARTIFICIAL GODS Hosea 8:4-13 The curse of such a state of dissipation as that to which Israel had fallen is that it pro...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Reaping the Whirlwind Hosea 8:1-14 A conqueror was at hand who should subdue and punish the whole nation for taking its own course, irrespectiv...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

From this statement of the case the prophet turned to the pronouncement of judgment. This he did by adopting the figure of the trumpet lifted to the...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The Chapter opens with a command to someone, and it should seem most likely to be to the Prophet, to cry aloud, in a way of reproof and expostulation...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind ,.... The sense is, the Israelites took a great deal of pains in the idolatrous worsh...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind, &c. A proverbial expression, to signify, that as men's works are, so must their...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Sin and Punishment of Israel; Crimes Charged against Israel; Sottish Idolatry of Israel. B. C....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

For; since that; or, for so much as; or, verily; so the Hebrew particle is sometimes used, Isaiah 7:9 . They have sown the wind; a proverbial...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Israel Have Laid False Foundations In Kingship And Religion, And YHWH, Despairing Of There Being Any Likelihood Of Their Becoming Pure, Will In Ange...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

For they sow the wind, And they will reap the whirlwind, By their actions, YHWH pointed out, they were ‘sowing the wind', and the consequence could...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES .— Hosea 8:8 . Swallowed ] up as devoured by beasts of prey. Vessel ] worthless and dishonoured ( 2 Timothy 2:20 ); and broken...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 8:1 . Set the trumpet to thy mouth. Give alarm, for the king of Assyria is coming; he is stretching his wings like an eagle to take the prey...
The Biblical Illustrator

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The consequences of sin Misery is attached to sin as its inevitable consequence...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION This chapter deals with the punishment of apostasy. Once more the sins of the northern kingdom are enumerated and its approaching fal...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Judgment Announced
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For they have sown the wind, by all their transgressions, and they shall reap the whirlwind, a fitting harvest for such a sowing; it hath no stalk...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Sown the wind — A proverbial speech to denote lost labour. Whirlwind — A tempest, which destroyeth all that is in its way; an emblem of the wrath o...

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.

Related Commentaries of Hosea 8:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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