Hosea 10:12

Translations

Modern

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.

Traditional

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.

Literal

Sow for yourselves unto righteousness, and reap to the mouth of loving devotion; break up for yourself the fallow ground, for it is time to seek YHWH, until He should come and shower righteousness upon you.

Latin

Seminate vobis in justitia, et metite in ore misericordiæ. Innovate vobis novale; tempus autem requirendi Dominum, cum venerit qui docebit vos justitiam.

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Hebrew

English

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.

Notes

Hosea 10:12

Using farming metaphors, God explained his requirements for his people and promised blessings if they obeyed (see Hosea 6:6; 8:7). Although Hosea announced God's judgment, he also gave Israel the chance to repent and receive blessings.

Events

Prophecies of Hosea

Related verses

Jeremiah 4:3–4
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.
Isaiah 45:8
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.
James 3:18
Peacemakers who sow in peace reap the fruit of righteousness.
Proverbs 11:18
The wicked man earns an empty wage, but he who sows righteousness reaps a true reward.
Isaiah 55:6
Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
Hosea 6:3
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.
Jeremiah 29:12–14
Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
Isaiah 44:3
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.
Ecclesiastes 11:6
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.
Psalm 105:4
Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.
Zephaniah 2:1–3
Gather yourselves, gather together, O shameful nation,
Amos 5:15
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.”

Glossary

Hosea, Book of Imputation Love

Topics

Agriculture or Farming: Culture of the Heart Changed Hearts Desire: Spiritual Making Time for God Ploughing: The Breaking up or Tilling of the Earth Rain of Righteousness Reaping: Figurative Reaping: Receiving the Reward of Righteousness Repentance: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Righteousness: Fruits of Righteousness: The Wicked should Sow to Themselves In Seed: Illustrative Seed: Sowing, Illustrative of Men's Works Producing a Corresponding Recompence Seeds Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Seeking God: Ensures: Gifts of Righteousness Seeking God: should be Immediate Sower: Figurative Symbols and Similitudes of the Holy Spirit: Fertilizing The Emblems of the Holy Spirit: Rain and Dew: Fertilising

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