Hosea 10:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Sow

James 3:18

Time

Rain

General references

Mark 4:5

Bible References

Sow

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind; they shall have no harvest; the fruit shall yield no meal: if so be it yields, the strangers shall swallow it up.

Those that sow with tears shall reap with joy.

The wicked works a deceitful work, but to him that sows righteousness shall be a sure reward.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those that love it shall eat its fruit.

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand; for thou knowest not which shall prosper, either this or that or whether they both shall be equally good.

Blessed are ye that sow upon all waters, ye that plow with the ox and with the ass.

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace unto those that make peace.

Time

Seek the LORD and his strength; seek his face continually.

Woe to those that go down to Egypt for help; and trust in horses and place their hope in chariots because they are many and in horsemen, because they are valiant, but they did not look unto the Holy One of Israel, neither did they seek the LORD!

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

Then ye shall call upon me, and ye shall walk in my ways and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the sons of Israel shall come, they and the sons of Judah together, going and weeping they shall go and seek the LORD their God.

But thus hath the LORD said unto the house of Israel, Seek me, and ye shall live:

Search yourselves and one another, O unfriendly people;

Strive to enter in at the narrow gate; for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in and shall not be able.

Rain

And we shall know and follow on in knowing the LORD; his going forth is prepared as the dawn; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass as the dew that waters the earth.

And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned, nor hoed; but briers and thorns shall come up there; I will even command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Then he shall give the rain unto thy planting when thou shalt sow the ground; and bread of the fruit of the earth, and it shall be fat and fertile: in that day thy cattle shall feed in large pastures.

For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty and floods upon the dry ground; I will pour my spirit upon thy seed and my blessing upon thine offspring:

Release, ye heavens, from above, and the clouds shall pour down righteous ness; let the earth open up, and let salvation and righteousness bear their fruit; let them produce fruit together; I the LORD have created it.

And I will give unto them and to the places round about my hill blessing, and I will cause the rain to come down in its season; they shall be rains of blessing.

and for certain on my slaves and on my handmaids I will pour out in those days of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy;

I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.

General references

And some fell on stony ground where it had not much earth, and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth;