For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind – They will reap not merely as they have sown, but with a terrible i…

Wind ... whirlwind.—The great law of Divine retribution, the punishment for sin being often a greater facility in sinning…

The Prophet here shows by another figure how unprofitably the Israelites engaged in their perverted worship, and then how vainly they excused their…

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind , &c.] The sense is, the Israelites took a great deal of p…

They promised themselves plenty, peace, and victory, by worshipping idols, but their expectations came to nothing. What they sow has no stalk, no b…