Hosea 10:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Sow for yourselves according to righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God); reap according to mercy and loving-kindness. Break up your uncultivated ground, for it is time to seek the Lord, to inquire for and of Him, and to require His favor, till He comes and teaches you righteousness and rains His righteous gift of salvation upon you. [II Cor. 9:10.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² 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.

Common English Bible

¹² Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap faithful love; break up your unplanted ground, for it is time to seek the LORD, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Sow for yourselves in justice, and harvest in the mouth of mercy; renew your fallow land. But the time when you will seek the Lord is the time when he will arrive who will teach you justice.

Hosea 10:12 Cross References

James 3:18

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Isaiah 45:8

Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the skies rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation may spring up, and let it cause righteousness to sprout up also; I the Lord have created it.

Proverbs 11:18

The wicked earn no real gain, but those who sow righteousness get a true reward.

Isaiah 55:6

Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;

Hosea 6:3

Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord; his appearing is as sure as the dawn; he will come to us like the showers, like the spring rains that water the earth.”

Isaiah 44:3

For I will pour water on the thirsty land and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my spirit upon your descendants and my blessing on your offspring.

Ecclesiastes 11:6

In the morning sow your seed, and at evening do not let your hands be idle, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.

Psalm 105:4

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually.

Luke 13:24

“Strive to enter through the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.

Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Amos 5:6

Seek the Lord and live, or he will break out against the house of Joseph like fire, and it will devour Bethel, with no one to quench it.

Isaiah 31:1

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and who rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or consult the Lord!

Amos 5:4

For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek me and live,

Hosea 12:6

But as for you, return to your God; hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.

Amos 5:8

The one who made the Pleiades and Orion and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the water of the sea and pours it out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name,

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no meal; if it were to yield, foreigners would devour it.

Acts 2:18

Even upon my slaves, both men and women, in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.

Ezekiel 34:26

I will make them and the region around my hill a blessing, and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing.

Isaiah 32:20

Happy will you be who sow beside every stream, who let the ox and the donkey range freely.

Isaiah 30:23

He will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and grain, the produce of the ground, will be rich and plenteous. On that day your cattle will graze in broad pastures,

Jeremiah 50:4

In those days and in that time, says the Lord, the people of Israel shall come, they and the people of Judah together; they shall come weeping as they seek the Lord their God.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wasteland; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

Psalm 72:6

May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth.

2 Corinthians 9:10

He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

Isaiah 48:18

O that you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your prosperity would have been like a river and your success like the waves of the sea;

Hosea 14:1

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

Isaiah 54:14

In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression; indeed, you shall not fear; and from terror; indeed, it shall not come near you.