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

Time

Rain

General references

Mark 4:5

Bible References

Sow

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.

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

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

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 that--or if the two will be equally good.

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

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

Time

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

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;

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

And you will go on crying to me and making prayer to me, and I will give ear to you.

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.

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:

Come together, make everyone come together, O nation without shame;

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.

Rain

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.

General references

And some went on the stones, where it had not much earth; and it came up straight away, because the earth was not deep: