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 shall swallow it up.
(f) Showing that their religion has but a show, and in itself is but vanity.
Verse Hosea 8:7. _THEY HAVE SOWN THE WIND, AND THEY SHALL REAP THE_ _WHIRLWIND_] As the husbandman reaps the same kind of grain which he has sown, but in far greater abundance, _thirty, sixty_, or _o...
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. They sowed folly and vanity, and shall reap, not merely...
CHAPTER 8:1-9:9 The Apostasy is Followed by Judgment _ 1. The judgment announced (Hosea 8:1) _ 2. The apostasy which resulted in judgment (Hosea 8:8) 3. Warning against self-security (Hosea 9:1)...
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 the whirlwind; the sources of the national life are wit...
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_ "....
The consequences of Israel's evil conduct and policy are here represented under the figure of sowing and reaping. But the form of the figure is varied. First, Israel sows wind and reaps whirlwind, i.e...
_ISRAEL SOWED THE WIND -- HOSEA 8:5-7:_ Israel was the name of the nation. Ephraim was the larger tribe in the Northern Kingdom. Samaria was the city that was the capital of the Northern Kingdom. God...
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 its inevitable consequence. This connexion does not alway...
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 yield no meal; and if it yield it, strangers shall devour...
ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDETHE LORD'S LAMENT TEXT: Hosea 8:1-7 1 Set the trumpet to thy mouth. As an eagle he cometh against the house of Jehovah, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespasse...
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 swallow it up. FOR THEY HAVE SOWN THE WIND, AND...
THE LONG-MERITED RETRIBUTION The enemy is coming immediately to destroy their temples and palaces and desolate the land, and as a punishment for their idolatry and disloyalty to God. In vain will the...
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] Again Hosea formally modifies his previous statement, only to h...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 8 GOD IS ANGRY WITH ISRAEL BECAUSE SHE PRAYS TO *IDOLS V1 Put a *trumpet to your lips and warn people! An *eagle is over the *L...
WIND... WHIRLWIND. — The great law of Divine retribution, the punishment for sin being often a greater facility in sinning — indifference to God becoming enmity, forgetfulness of duty or truth becomin...
כִּ֛י ר֥וּחַ יִזְרָ֖עוּ וְ סוּפָ֣תָה יִקְצֹ֑רוּ...
2. ARTIFICIAL KINGS AND ARTIFICIAL GODS Hosea 8:4 The curse of such a state of dissipation as that to which Israel had fallen is that it produces no men. Had the people had in them "the root of the m...
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
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, irrespective of God, Hosea 8:4-8; for seeking foreign alliances whi...
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 mouth, on which five blasts were sounded, in each o...
Whirlwind. They shall be punished for their folly, nor shall they reap any advantage from idols. --- In it, or in Israel. The seed which I have sown yields no fruit. If any come up, the mildew destroy...
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. The expression is not unlike that command to Isai...
The rest of the prophecy consists of the indignant appeals of the Holy Spirit to conscience because of the increasing evils of Israel not so much the judgment of God on a grand scale, and His grace at...
XI. HOSEA 8:7 (NASB) FOR THEY SOW THE WIND, AND THEY REAP THE WHIRLWIND......
The Prophet here shows by another figure how unprofitably the Israelites exercised themselves in their perverted worship, and then how vainly they excused their superstitions. And this reproof is very...
In chapter 8 it is especially the daring and continual violation of the law of their God, with which Israel is openly reproached, and which would bring judgment, with eagle swiftness, upon them. Obser...
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 worship of the calves, and made a great stir, bustle, and...
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 swallow it up. Ver. 7. _For they have sown the wi...
_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 reward be; that they who sow iniquity shall reap vanit...
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, their sowing produces no stalk, THE BUD, the kernels...
THE JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED...
STALK: Or, standing corn...
5-10 They promised themselves plenty, peace, and victory, by worshipping idols, but their expectations came to nothing. What they sow has no stalk, no blade, or, if it have, the bud shall yield no fr...
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 speech, to denote either lost labour, or, which is much wor...
Hosea 8:7 sow H2232 (H8799) wind H7307 reap H7114 (H8799) whirlwind H5492 stalk H7054 bud H6780 produce...
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 only be that they would reap the whirlwind. It was...
ISRAEL HAVE LAID FALSE FOUNDATIONS IN KINGSHIP AND RELIGION, AND YHWH, DESPAIRING OF THERE BEING ANY LIKELIHOOD OF THEIR BECOMING PURE, WILL IN ANGER BOTH DESTROY ‘THE CALF OF SAMARIA' AND MINIMISE TH...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Sins denounced and captivity foretold. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Those who sow to the flesh must reap corruption. All the hopes of sinners are cheats, and...
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. Isaiah uses the same figure, in Isaiah 58:1. _Again...
_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; but the connection does not always appear to a supe...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 8:1 The people of Israel may claim to know and love the Lord, but their deeds prove otherwise. ⇐ ⇔
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 8:8. SWALLOWED] up as devoured by beasts of prey. VESSEL] worthless and dishonoured (2 Timothy 2:20); and broken (Psalms 31:12;...
EXPOSITION This chapter deals with the punishment of apostasy. Once more the sins of the northern kingdom are enumerated and its approaching fall predicted. There is a close connection between the ver...
Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law (Hsa Hosea 8:1). So God again is giving...
2 Kings 13:3; 2 Kings 15:19; 2 Kings 15:29; Deuteronomy 28:33;...
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 of God. No stalk — All your dependance on idols, and f...