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

Because they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind. [The] standing grain does not have heads; it will not yield flour. [And] if it would yield, strangers would devour it.

Those who sow with tears shall reap with rejoicing.

The wicked earns {deceptive gain}, but he who sows righteousness, a {true reward}.

Death and life [are] in the {power} of the tongue, and those who love her will eat of her fruit.

Sow your seed in the morning, and do not let your hands rest in the evening, for you do not know what will prosper-- whether this or that, or whether both of them alike will succeed.

Happy [are] you who sow by all waters, who let the foot of the ox and the donkey go free.

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

Time

Make supplication to Yahweh and his might; seek his face continually.

Ah! Those who go down [to] Egypt for help! They rely on horses and trust in chariots because [they are] many, and in horsemen because they are very numerous, and they do not look to the holy one of Israel, and they do not consult Yahweh.

Seek Yahweh {while he lets himself be found}; call him {while he is} near.

Then [when] you call me, and you come and pray to me, then I will listen to you.

In those days and in that time,'" {declares} Yahweh, "the people of Israel will come, they and the people of Judah together. {Weeping as they go}, they will go, and Yahweh their God they will seek.

For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel, "Seek me so that you may live."

Gather yourselves together! Now gather together, O nation having no shame!

"Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able to,

Rain

Let us know, let us press on to know Yahweh; his rising [is] sure like [the] dawn. He will come like the showers to us, like [the] spring rain that waters [the] earth.

May he descend like rain on mown grass, like showers watering [the] earth.

And I will make it a wasteland; it shall not be pruned and hoed, and it shall be overgrown [with] briers and thornbushes. And concerning the clouds, I will command {them not to send} rain down upon it.

And he will give rain for your seed [with] which you sow the ground, and grain, the produce of the ground, and it will be rich and {fertile}. On that day, your cattle will graze [in] broad pastures;

For I will pour out water on a thirsty [land] and streams on dry ground. I will pour my spirit out on your descendants and my blessing on your offspring.

Trickle, O heavens, from above, and let clouds trickle [with] righteousness; let [the] earth open so that salvation may be fruitful, and let it cause righteousness to sprout along with it. I myself, Yahweh, have created it.

And I will make them and [the area] all around my hill a blessing, and I will let the rain go down {at its appointed time}; they will be rains of blessing.

And even on my male slaves and on my female slaves I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing [it] to grow.

General references

And other [seed] fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up at once, because it did not have [any] depth of soil.