Hosea 8:7-9

Hosea 8:7-9 King James Version (KJV)
7 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.
8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

Hosea 8:7-9 Expanded Bible (EXB)

7 “•Israel’s foolish plans are like planting the wind [L They sow the wind],
•but they will harvest a storm [L and reap the whirlwind].
Like a stalk with no head of grain,
it produces •nothing [L no flour].
Even if it produced something,
•other nations [foreigners] would •eat [devour] it.
8 Israel is •eaten [swallowed] up;
the people are •mixed among [L among] the other nations
and have become •useless to me [a useless pot/utensil/vessel].
9 Israel is like a wild donkey •all by itself [wandering alone].
They have •run [L gone up] to Assyria;
•They have hired other nations to protect them [L Ephraim has hired lovers; or Ephraim has sold herself to lovers].

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7 We reap what we sow we can not plant bad things and not expect anything but trouble, they were living lives that did not please the Lord, this is the wind the plant, their sins which would become the whirlwind of trouble, they needed grain, living for God the flour is God’s blessings which because they did not serve Him they did not receive them.

8 Israel would because of them losing their identity because the thing that made them separate was their faith in the Lord which they would go away from. They would just become like everyone else.

9 They went to outsiders for help and their was marriages between the two which was not to be done, they were to turn to God with their troubles not of those in this world, we should not turn to the world ourselves but turn to the Lord.