Hosea 10:12 “Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion…”

Hosea 10:12

Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

World English Bible

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

American Standard Version

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness; break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Jehovah, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

Geneva Bible 1599

Sowe to your selues in righteousnes: reape after the measure of mercy: breake vp your fallowe grounde: for it is time to seeke the Lord, till he come and raine righteousnesse vpon you.

Darby Translation

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek Jehovah, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

Young's Literal Translation

Sow for yourselves in righteousness, Reap according to loving-kindness, Till for yourselves tillage of knowledge, To seek Jehovah, Till he come and shew righteousness to you.

Bible in Basic English

Put in the seed of righteousness, get in your grain in mercy, let your unploughed earth be turned up: for it is time to make search for the Lord, till he comes and sends righteousness on you like rain.

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Cross references

“Sow”

James 3:18 Proverbs 11:18 Ecclesiastes 11:6 Hosea 8:7 Isaiah 32:20 Proverbs 18:21

James 3:18 · BSB

Peacemakers who sow in peace reap the fruit of righteousness.

Proverbs 11:18 · BSB

The wicked man earns an empty wage, but he who sows righteousness reaps a true reward.

Ecclesiastes 11:6 · BSB

Sow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hands in the evening, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or if both will equally prosper.

Hosea 8:7 · BSB

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.

Isaiah 32:20 · BSB

Blessed are those who sow beside abundant waters, who let the ox and donkey range freely.

Proverbs 18:21 · BSB

Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

“break”

Jeremiah 4:3 Jeremiah 4:4

Jeremiah 4:3 · BSB

For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.

Jeremiah 4:4 · BSB

Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil…

“time”

Isaiah 55:6 Jeremiah 29:12–14 Psalm 105:4 Amos 5:15 Zephaniah 2:1–3 Luke 13:24

Isaiah 55:6 · BSB

Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.

Jeremiah 29:12–14 · BSB

Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

Psalm 105:4 · BSB

Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.

Amos 5:15 · BSB

Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

Zephaniah 2:1–3 · BSB

Gather yourselves, gather together, O shameful nation,

Luke 13:24 · BSB

“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.

“rain”

Isaiah 45:8 Hosea 6:3 Isaiah 44:3 Ezekiel 34:26 Acts 2:18 Psalm 72:6

Isaiah 45:8 · BSB

Drip down, O heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open up that salvation may sprout and righteousness spring up with it; I, the LORD, have created it.

Hosea 6:3 · BSB

So let us know— let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.

Isaiah 44:3 · BSB

For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.

Ezekiel 34:26 · BSB

I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season—showers of blessing.

Acts 2:18 · BSB

Even on My menservants and maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.

Psalm 72:6 · BSB

May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.

Also

Hosea 12:6

Hosea 12:6 · BSB

But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice, and always wait on your God.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11Ephraim is a well-trained heifer that loves to thresh; but I will place a yoke on her fair neck. I will harness Ephraim, Judah will plow, and Jacob will break the hard ground.

13You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,

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