⁷ "They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no head; it will produce no flour. Were it to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it up.

⁷ For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: [1] the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.