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For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: he has no standing grain; the blade shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.
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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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Hosea
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
Wind ... whirlwind.—The great law of Divine retribution, the punishment for sin being often a greater facility in sinning…
16th Century
Protestant
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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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
