Hosea 10:12

Bible in Basic English 1965

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.

Cross References

Psalm 105:4

Let your search be for the Lord and for his strength; let your hearts ever be turned to him.

Psalm 72:6

May he come down like rain on the cut grass; like showers watering the earth.

Proverbs 11:18

The sinner gets the payment of deceit; but his reward is certain who puts in the seed of righteousness.

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and those to whom it is dear will have its fruit for their food.

Ecclesiastes 11:6

In the morning put your seed into the earth, and till the evening let not your hand be at rest; because you are not certain which will do well, this or thator if the two will be equally good.

Isaiah 30:23

And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.

Isaiah 31:1

Cursed are those who go down to Egypt for help, and who put their faith in horses; looking to war-carriages for salvation, because of their numbers; and to horsemen, because they are very strong; but they are not looking to the Holy One of Israel, or turning their hearts to the Lord;

Isaiah 32:20

Happy are you who are planting seed by all the waters, and sending out the ox and the ass.

Isaiah 44:3

For I will send water on the land needing it, and streams on the dry earth: I will let my spirit come down on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring.

Isaiah 45:8

Let righteousness come down, O heavens, from on high, and let the sky send it down like rain: let the earth be open to give the fruit of salvation, causing righteousness to come up with it; I the Lord have made it come about.

Isaiah 48:18

If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:

Isaiah 5:6

And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.

Isaiah 54:14

All your rights will be made certain to you: have no fear of evil, and destruction will not come near you.

Isaiah 55:6

Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:

Jeremiah 50:4

In those days and in that time, says the Lord, the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping and making prayer to the Lord their God.

Ezekiel 34:26

And I will give the rain at the right time, and I will make the shower come down at the right time; there will be showers of blessing.

Hosea 12:6

So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God.

Hosea 14:1

O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall.

Hosea 6:3

And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.

Hosea 8:7

For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.

Amos 5:15

Be haters of evil and lovers of good, and let right be done in the public place: it may be that the Lord, the God of armies, will have mercy on the rest of Joseph.

Amos 5:4

For these are the words of the Lord to the children of Israel: Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have life:

Amos 5:6

Go to the Lord for help so that you may have life; for fear that he may come like fire bursting out in the family of Joseph, causing destruction, and there will be no one to put it out in Beth-el.

Amos 5:8

Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;

Luke 13:24

Do your best to go in by the narrow door, for I say to you, A number will make the attempt to go in, but will not be able to do so.

Acts 2:18

And on my men-servants and my women-servants I will send my Spirit, and they will be prophets.

2 Corinthians 9:10

And he who gives seed for putting into the field and bread for food, will take care of the growth of your seed, at the same time increasing the fruits of your righteousness;

James 3:18

And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.