Hosea 10:12 - The Scriptures 2009

¹² Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap according to loving-commitment, break up your tillable ground, it is time to seek יהוה, till He comes and rainsa righteousness on 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

Psalm 105:4

Seek יהוה and His strength; Seek His face always.

Psalm 72:6

Let Him come down like rain upon the mown grass, Like showers, watering the earth.

Proverbs 11:18

The wrong one earns false wages, But the one sowing righteousness, a true reward.

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.

Ecclesiastes 11:6

Sow your seed in the morning, and until evening do not let your hand rest; since you do not know which prosper, this or that, or whether both alike are good.

Isaiah 30:23

And He shall give the rain for your seed with which you sow the ground, and bread of the increase of the earth. And it shall be fat and rich, your cattle grazing in an enlarged pasture in that day,

Isaiah 31:1

Woe to those who go down to Mitsrayim for help, and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but who do not look to the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl, nor seek יהוה!

Isaiah 32:20

Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the foot of the ox and the donkey.

Isaiah 44:3

For I pour water on the thirsty, and floods on the dry ground. I pour My Spirit on your seed, and My blessing on your offspring,

Isaiah 45:8

“Rain down, O heavens, from above, and let clouds pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, let them bring forth deliverance, and let righteousness spring up together. I, יהוה, have created it.

Isaiah 48:18

“If only you had listened to My commands! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Isaiah 5:6

and I lay it waste; it is not pruned or dug and thornbushes and weeds shall come up; and I command the clouds not to rain on it.”

Isaiah 54:14

“In righteousness you shall be established – far from oppression, for you shall not fear, and far from ruin, for it does not come near you.

Isaiah 55:6

Seek יהוה while He is to be found, call on Him while He is near.

Jeremiah 50:4

“In those days and at that time,” declares יהוה, “the children of Yisra’ĕl shall come, they and the children of Yehuḏah together, weeping as they come, and seek יהוה their Elohim.

Ezekiel 34:26

“And I shall make them and the places all around My hill a blessing, and shall cause showers to come down in their season – showers of blessing they are.

Hosea 12:6

Therefore, return to your Elohim. Guard loving-commitment and right-ruling, and wait on your Elohim continually.

Hosea 14:1

O Yisra’ĕl, return to יהוה your Elohim, for you have stumbled by your crookedness.

Hosea 6:3

So let us know, let us pursue to know יהוה. His going forth is as certain as the morning. And He comes to us like the rain, like the latter rain watering the earth.’

Hosea 8:7

“For they sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no bud, it yields no grain. If it does yield, strangers swallow it up.

Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love good, and set up right-ruling in the gate. It might be that יהוה Elohim of hosts shows favour to the remnant of Yosĕph.

Amos 5:4

For thus said יהוה to the house of Yisra’ĕl, “Seek Me and live,

Amos 5:6

“Seek יהוה and live, lest He break out like fire upon the house of Yosĕph, and shall consume it, with no one to quench it in Bĕyth Ěl.

Amos 5:8

He who made Kimah and Kesil, and who turns the shadow of death into morning and darkened day into night, who is calling for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the face of the earth – יהוה is His Name –

Luke 13:24

“Strive to enter through the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, shall seek to enter in and shall not be able.

Acts 2:18

and also on My male servants and on My female servants I shall pour out My Spirit in those days, and they shall prophesy.

2 Corinthians 9:10

And He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, shall supply and increase the seed you have sown and increase the fruit of your righteousness,

James 3:18

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