Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
BSB · Berean Standard Bible
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.

Note stalk: or, standing corn

KJV · King James Version
For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
WEB · World English Bible
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: he hath no standing grain; the blade shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.
ASV · American Standard Version

Related passages

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.

sown
Hosea 10:12; Job 4:8; Proverbs 22:8; Ecclesiastes 5:16; Galatians 6:7
it hath
Isaiah 17:11; Jeremiah 12:13
stalk
or, standing corn. the strangers.
Hosea 7:9; Deuteronomy 28:33; Judges 6:3–6; 2 Kings 13:3–7; 2 Kings 15:19, 29