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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hosea 8:7 - 8:7
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sown ... reap - (Pro 22:8; Gal 6:7). “Sow ... wind,” that is, to make the vain show of worship, while faith and obedience are wanting [Calvin]. Rather, to offer senseless supplications to the calves for good harvests (compare Hos 2:8); the result being that God will make them “reap no stalk,” that is, “standing corn.” Also, the phraseology proverbially means that all their undertakings shall be profitless (Pro 11:29; Ecc 5:16).
the bud - or, “growth.”
strangers - foreigners (Hos 7:9).