Hosea 8:7
For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
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Hosea 8:7
For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
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Genesis 31:37
Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.
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Genesis 41:6
Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
Genesis 41:23
and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
Ezekiel 17:10
Yes, behold, being planted, will it prosper? Won’t it utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It will wither in the ground where it grew.” ’ ”
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Exodus 20:4
“You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Deuteronomy 4:14
Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.
Deuteronomy 4:15
Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,
Deuteronomy 4:16
lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself a carved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Deuteronomy 4:17
the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
Deuteronomy 4:18
the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
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Leviticus 26:16
I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
Deuteronomy 28:38
You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.
Deuteronomy 28:48
therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
Deuteronomy 28:49
Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,
Deuteronomy 28:50
a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favor to the young.
Deuteronomy 28:51
They will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t leave you grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
Deuteronomy 28:52
They will besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout all your land. They will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land which Yahweh your God has given you.
Judges 6:3
So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the children of the east came up against them.
Judges 6:4
They encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza. They left no sustenance in Israel, and no sheep, ox, or donkey.
Judges 6:5
For they came up with their livestock and their tents. They came in as locusts for multitude. Both they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land to destroy it.
Judges 6:6
Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried to Yahweh.
Nehemiah 9:37
It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. Also they have power over our bodies and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
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2 Kings 15:29
In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
2 Kings 17:16
They abandoned all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made molten images for themselves, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal.
2 Chronicles 11:15
He himself appointed priests for the high places, for the male goat and calf idols which he had made.
Hosea 5:13
“When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.
Hosea 8:9
For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
Hosea 8:14
For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses.”
Hosea 10:5
The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven, for its people will mourn over it, along with its priests who rejoiced over it, for its glory, because it has departed from it.
Hosea 10:6
It also will be carried to Assyria for a present to a great king. Ephraim will receive shame, and Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel.
Hosea 12:2
Yahweh also has a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his deeds he will repay him.
Amos 1:14
But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it will devour its palaces, with shouting in the day of battle, with a storm in the day of the whirlwind;
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2 Kings 19:26
Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops and like grain blasted before it has grown up.
Psalms 37:2
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.
Psalms 129:6
Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
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Job 1:15
and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Job 1:17
While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Job 4:9
By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.
Job 5:5
whose harvest the hungry eat up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
Job 12:6
The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.
Job 18:9
A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.
Habakkuk 1:17
Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?
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Job 15:2
“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
Ecclesiastes 1:3
What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 1:17
I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.
Isaiah 44:20
He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
Habakkuk 2:13
Behold, isn’t it from Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
John 6:27
Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
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Job 41:8
Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.
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Psalms 1:4
The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
Psalms 1:5
Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
Revelation 6:15
The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.
Revelation 6:16
They told the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
Revelation 6:17
for the great day of his wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”
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Psalms 7:14
Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.
Psalms 7:15
He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.
Psalms 7:16
The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
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Job 27:21
The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.
Psalms 11:6
On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
Proverbs 23:5
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
Isaiah 5:24
Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 7:9
The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’ ”
Isaiah 30:10
who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.
Jeremiah 4:18
“Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness, for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”
Romans 2:7
to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
Romans 2:8
but to those who are self-seeking and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,
Romans 2:9
oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Romans 2:10
But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
1 Timothy 6:17
Charge those who are rich in this present age that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
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Psalms 65:10
You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop.
Isaiah 18:5
For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.
Hosea 9:4
They won’t pour out wine offerings to Yahweh, neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted; for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into Yahweh’s house.
Hosea 10:15
So Bethel will do to you because of your great wickedness. At daybreak the king of Israel will be destroyed.
Hosea 14:5
I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.
Joel 1:8
Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!
Joel 1:9
The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh’s house. The priests, Yahweh’s ministers, mourn.
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Job 27:20
Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.
Proverbs 1:31
Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.
Proverbs 11:4
Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 11:5
The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
Proverbs 11:21
Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.
Nahum 1:3
Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Matthew 7:2
For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
Romans 2:6
who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”
Romans 6:21
What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
Galatians 6:9
Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season if we don’t give up.
Revelation 21:8
But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
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Proverbs 26:17
Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.
Proverbs 26:18
Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death,
Proverbs 26:19
is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “Am I not joking?”
Proverbs 26:20
For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
Proverbs 26:21
As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.
Proverbs 26:22
The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.
Romans 16:17
Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.
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Isaiah 18:6
They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will eat them in the summer, and all the animals of the earth will eat them in the winter.
Jeremiah 44:17
But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.
Hosea 2:8
For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
Hosea 9:1
Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
Hosea 9:3
They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
Hosea 10:14
Therefore a battle roar will arise among your people, and all your fortresses will be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the day of battle. The mother was dashed in pieces with her children.
Joel 1:5
Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.
Joel 1:6
For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.
Joel 1:7
He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.
Joel 1:10
The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.
Joel 1:11
Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.
Joel 1:12
The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered— the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men.
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Isaiah 26:14
The dead shall not live. The departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore you have visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.
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Isaiah 32:2
A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.
Jeremiah 23:5
“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch; and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land.
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2 Kings 13:22
Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.
Proverbs 23:35
“They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I will look for more.”
Isaiah 42:22
But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become captives, and no one delivers, and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’
Isaiah 42:23
Who is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
Isaiah 42:24
Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn’t Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.
Isaiah 42:25
Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle. It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know. It burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.”
Isaiah 57:1
The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.
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Isaiah 47:2
Take the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs, and wade through the rivers.
Ezekiel 11:9
“I will bring you out of the middle of it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
Ezekiel 28:10
You will die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers; for I have spoken it,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”
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Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.
Ecclesiastes 11:4
He who observes the wind won’t sow; and he who regards the clouds won’t reap.
Isaiah 2:5
House of Jacob, come, and let’s walk in the light of Yahweh.
Isaiah 32:20
Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.
Jeremiah 4:3
For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.
1 Corinthians 9:11
If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
Galatians 6:6
But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.
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Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?
Matthew 10:42
Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.”
Romans 8:11
But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
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Job 20:5
that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
Job 20:18
He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.
Proverbs 1:12
Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.
Jeremiah 51:34
“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out.
Jeremiah 51:44
I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. The nations will not flow any more to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.
Lamentations 2:16
All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”
Amos 8:4
Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
Amos 8:5
saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
Matthew 23:14
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.
Matthew 23:24
You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!
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Hosea 4:10
They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned listening to Yahweh.
Hosea 9:11
As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.
Hosea 9:12
Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!
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Deuteronomy 28:43
The foreigner who is among you will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower.
Hosea 8:1
“Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over Yahweh’s house, because they have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law.
Micah 6:15
You will sow, but won’t reap. You will tread the olives, but won’t anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won’t drink the wine.
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Matthew 7:18
A good tree can’t produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.
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Matthew 7:19
Every tree that doesn’t grow good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
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Matthew 15:9
And they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’ ”
Luke 15:15
He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
Luke 15:16
He wanted to fill his belly with the pods that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.
Romans 7:9
I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
Romans 9:31
but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
Romans 10:2
For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Romans 10:3
For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
Philippians 3:4
though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:
Philippians 3:5
circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;
Philippians 3:6
concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
Philippians 3:7
However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.
Hebrews 13:9
Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
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Matthew 25:11
Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’
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Matthew 25:12
But he answered, ‘Most certainly I tell you, I don’t know you.’
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Luke 12:19
I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’
Luke 16:19
“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
Luke 16:23
In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.
Luke 16:24
He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’
James 5:5
You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
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Luke 18:11
The Pharisee stood and prayed by himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men: extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
Luke 18:12
I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’
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Proverbs 6:15
Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.
Ezekiel 20:49
Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! They say of me, ‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’ ”
Matthew 24:38
For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship,
Matthew 24:39
and they didn’t know until the flood came and took them all away, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Luke 21:24
They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
1 Thessalonians 5:2
For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.
James 5:7
Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
2 Peter 3:4
and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”
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John 3:14
As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
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John 3:15
that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
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Ephesians 5:15
Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,
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Ephesians 5:16
redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
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