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 sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The blade shall yield no meal. If so be it yields, strangers shall swallow it up.

Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy.

A wicked man earns deceitful wages, but he who sows righteousness [has] a sure reward.

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

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand, for thou know not which shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

Blessed are ye who sow beside all waters, who send forth the feet of the ox and the donkey.

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

Time

Seek ye LORD and his strength. Seek his face evermore.

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they look not to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek LORD!

Seek ye LORD while he may be found. Call ye upon him while he is near.

And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray to me, and I will hearken to you.

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

For thus says LORD to the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and ye shall live.

Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation that has no shame.

Compete to enter in by the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

Rain

And let us know, let us follow on to know LORD. His going forth is sure as the morning, and he will come to us as the rain, as the latter rain that waters the earth.

He will come down like rain upon the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

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

And he will give the rain for thy seed, with which thou shall sow the ground, and bread of the increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous. In that day thy cattle shall feed in large pastures.

For I will pour water upon him who is thirsty, and streams upon the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring.

Distil, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open that it may bring forth salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up together. I, LORD, have created it.

And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing, and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.

And also on my bondmen and on my bondmaids in those days I will pour out from my Spirit, and they will prophesy.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused growth.

General references

And others fell on the rocky ground where it had not much soil. And straightaway it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.