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.
The Septuagint (LXX) translated the word for "whirlwind" as [@katastrophe],[15] and for Israel the harvest would be a catastrophe indeed!  (For a further discussion of "Sowing and Reaping," see in my commentary on Galatians-Colossians, pp. 99,100.)