Cross references

Hosea 8:7

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 BSB

Hosea 8:7 has 16 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 10 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Proverbs 22:8 (16 votes) and Job 4:8 (11 votes). 25 other verses point back to it. It links with 14 other books, from Genesis 41 to Galatians 6.

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Which verses does Hosea 8:7 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

  2. Job 4:811 votes

    As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

  3. Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.

  4. Nahum 1:36 votes

    The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.

  5. Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them, encamping against them as far as Gaza and destroying the produce of the land. They left Israel with no sustenance, neither sheep nor oxen nor donkeys. …

  6. Hosea 7:95 votes

    Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.

  7. Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain. You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,

  8. For behold, the LORD will come with fire—His chariots are like a whirlwind—to execute His anger with fury and His rebuke with flames of fire.

  9. They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”

  10. Hosea 2:94 votes

    Therefore I will take back My grain in its time and My new wine in its season; I will take away My wool and linen, which were given to cover her nakedness.

  11. Then Pul king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver in order to gain his support and strengthen his own grip on the kingdom.

Which verses point to Hosea 8:7?

The 10 strongest of 25.