A-Z: Common sayings from the Bible
- Sabbatical
- Sackcloth and ashes
- Sacrificial lamb
- Safe and sound
- Salt of the earth
- Scales falling from eyes
- Scapegoat
- Scarlet woman
- Scribes and Pharisees
- Scum of the earth
- Seamless robe
- Seeing the light
- Setting one's house in order
- Seven pillars of wisdom
- Shaking the dust off one's feet
- Sheep and goats
- Shibboleth
- Signs of the times
- Skin of one's teeth
- Sodom and Gomorrah
- Soft answer turns away anger
- Sour grapes
- Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind
- Spare the rod and spoil the child
- Speak now or forever hold one's peace
- Still, small voice
- Sting in the tail
- Stony ground
- Straight and narrow
- Strangers and pilgrims
- Streets paved with gold
- Stumbling block
- Suffer the little children
- Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof
- Sweating blood
- Swords into plowshares
- Taking (someone's) name in vain
- Taking up one's cross
- Tell it not in Gath
- Ten commandments
- Tested by fire
- The Lord gives and the Lord takes away
- The love of money is the root of evil
- The poor you always have with you
- The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
- The world, the flesh and the devil
- There is nothing new under the sun
- Thief in the night
- Thirty pieces of silver
- Thorn in the flesh
A-Z: Common sayings from the Bible: Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind
Usage
Do something bad and bring about catastrophic consequences.Definition
The sin and idolatry of Israel bring about the dreadful consequences of oppression and destruction.Bible References
Hosea 8:7- English Standard Version
- King James Version
1Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law. 2To me they cry, My God, we - Israel - know you. 3Israel has spurned the good; the enemy shall pursue him. 4They made kings, but not through me. They set up princes, but I knew it not. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction. 5I have spurned your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence? 6For it is from Israel; a craftsman made it; it is not God. The calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces. 7For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no flour; if it were to yield, strangers would devour it. 8Israel is swallowed up; already they are among the nations as a useless vessel. 9For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey wandering alone; Ephraim has hired lovers. 10Though they hire allies among the nations, I will soon gather them up. And the king and princes shall soon writhe because of the tribute. 11Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they have become to him altars for sinning. 12Were I to write for him my laws by the ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing. 13As for my sacrificial offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the Lord does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt. 14For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; so I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour her strongholds.
1Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. 2Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee. 3Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. 4They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. 5Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency? 6For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces. 7For 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. 8Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure. 9For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. 10Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes. 11Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin. 12I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing. 13They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt. 14For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
Disobedience to the known will of God. According to Christian theology human beings have displayed a pre-disposition to sin since the Fall of Humankind.
1. In the Bible, an object of worship other than God.
2. Anything which usurps the place of God in the lives of human beings.
The Old Testament frequently refers to Israel as the Promised Land allocated to God's children. Prophecies refer to it as his chosen nation and the one out of which the Messiah would come.
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