Hosea 8:7
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
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.

Young's Literal Translation
For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none—a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield—strangers do swallow it up.

King James 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.

Hebrew
Indeed,
כִּ֛י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

they sow
יִזְרָ֖עוּ (yiz·rā·‘ū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 2232: To sow, to disseminate, plant, fructify

the wind
ר֥וּחַ (rū·aḥ)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 7307: Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit

and reap
יִקְצֹ֑רוּ (yiq·ṣō·rū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 7114: To dock off, curtail, to harvest

the whirlwind.
וְסוּפָ֣תָה (wə·sū·p̄ā·ṯāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 5492: A storm wind

There is no
אֵֽין־ (’ên-)
Adverb
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

standing grain;
קָמָ֣ה (qā·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 7054: Something that rises, a stalk of grain

what sprouts
צֶ֚מַח (ṣe·maḥ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6780: A sprout, growth

fails
בְּלִ֣י (bə·lî)
Adverb
Strong's 1097: Failure, nothing, destruction, without, not yet, because not, as long as

to yield
יַֽעֲשֶׂה־ (ya·‘ă·śeh-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

flour.
קֶּ֔מַח (qe·maḥ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7058: Flour, meal

Even if
אוּלַ֣י (’ū·lay)
Adverb
Strong's 194: Perhaps

it should produce,
יַֽעֲשֶׂ֔ה (ya·‘ă·śeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

the foreigners
זָרִ֖ים (zā·rîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 2114: To turn aside, to be a, foreigner, strange, profane, to commit adultery

would swallow it up.
יִבְלָעֻֽהוּ׃ (yiḇ·lā·‘u·hū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1104: To swallow down, swallow up, engulf

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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