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Sowing Wind, Reaping Whirlwind
Commentators explain this is more than just 'reaping what you sow.' It's a principle of escalation. Investing in sin, idolatry, or empty religion ('sowing the wind') doesn't just return emptiness; it unleashes a disproportionately destructive and chaotic consequence ('the whirlwind'). This is described as a law of divine retribution where sinful actions lead to sudden, irresistible destruction.
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Albert Barnes
On Hosea 8:7
18th Century
Theologian
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…
Charles Ellicott
On Hosea 8:7
19th Century
Bishop
Wind ... whirlwind.—The great law of Divine retribution, the punishment for sin being often a greater facility in sinning…
John Calvin
On Hosea 8:7
16th Century
Theologian
The Prophet here shows by another figure how unprofitably the Israelites engaged in their perverted worship, and then how vainly they excused their…
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John Gill
On Hosea 8:7
17th Century
Pastor
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind , &c.] The sense is, the Israelites took a great deal of p…
Matthew Henry
On Hosea 8:5–10
17th Century
Minister
They promised themselves plenty, peace, and victory, by worshipping idols, but their expectations came to nothing. What they sow has no stalk, no b…