Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness; break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Jehovah, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

New American Standard Bible

Sow with a view to righteousness,
Reap in accordance with kindness;
Break up your fallow ground,
For it is time to seek the Lord
Until He comes to rain righteousness on you.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

Sow righteousness for yourselves
and reap faithful love;
break up your unplowed ground.
It is time to seek the Lord
until He comes and sends righteousness
on you like the rain.

International Standard Version

Sow in righteousness in your own interest, reap in gracious love, break up your own unprepared ground; It is now time to inquire of the LORD, until he comes to pour out righteousness for you.

A Conservative Version

Sow to yourselves in righteousness. Reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek LORD, till he comes and rains righteousness upon you.

Amplified


Sow with a view to righteousness [that righteousness, like seed, may germinate];
Reap in accordance with mercy and lovingkindness.
Break up your uncultivated ground,
For it is time to seek and search diligently for the Lord [and to long for His blessing]
Until He comes to rain righteousness and His gift of salvation on you.

Bible in Basic English

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.

Darby Translation

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek Jehovah, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

Julia Smith Translation

Sow to yourselves for justice, reap ye for the mouth of kindness; break up to you the fallow ground: and the time to seek Jehovah till he shall come and cast justice upon you.

King James 2000

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he comes and rains righteousness upon you.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Sow for yourselves righteousness; {reap loyal love}. Break up for yourself fallow ground; [it is] time to seek Yahweh so he will come and rain righteousness upon you.

Modern King James verseion

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground. For it is time to seek Jehovah, until He comes and rains righteousness on you.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

that they might sow unto righteousness, and reap the fruits of well doing: that they might plow up their fresh land and seek the LORD, till he came, and learned them righteousness.

NET Bible

Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap unfailing love. Break up the unplowed ground for yourselves, for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers deliverance on you.

New Heart English Bible

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

The Emphasized Bible

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap ye at thc bidding of lovingkindness, furrow to yourselves the newly-ploughed soil, - then will be the time to seek Yahweh, until he come, that he may rain down righteousness for you.

Webster

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he shall come and reign righteousness upon you.

World English Bible

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

Youngs Literal Translation

Sow for yourselves in righteousness, Reap according to loving-kindness, Till for yourselves tillage of knowledge, To seek Jehovah, Till he come and shew righteousness to you.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Sow
זרע 
Zara` 
Usage: 56

קצר 
Qatsar 
Usage: 49

in
פּה 
Peh 
Usage: 497

break up
ניר 
Niyr 
break up
Usage: 2

נר ניר 
Niyr 
Usage: 4

for it is time
עת 
`eth 
Usage: 296

to seek
דּרשׁ 
Darash 
Usage: 164

the Lord

Usage: 0

till he come

come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

and rain
ירא ירה 
Yarah 
Usage: 83

Devotionals

Devotionals about Hosea 10:12

Devotionals containing Hosea 10:12

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Smith

Images Hosea 10:12

Prayers for Hosea 10:12

Context Readings

Israel Is Like A Cow That Threshed Grain

11 And Ephraim is a heifer that is taught, that loveth to tread out the grain ; but I have passed over upon her fair neck: I will set a rider on Ephraim; Judah shall plow, Jacob shall break his clods. 12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness; break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Jehovah, till he come and rain righteousness upon you. 13 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies; for thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.



Cross References

Isaiah 45:8

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, Jehovah, have created it.

Proverbs 11:18

The wicked earneth deceitful wages; But he that soweth righteousness hath a sure reward.

Isaiah 44:3

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

Hosea 6:3

And let us know, let us follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is sure as the morning; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth.

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: he hath no standing grain; the blade shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.

Psalm 72:6

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

Psalm 105:4

Seek ye Jehovah and his strength; Seek his face evermore.

Psalm 126:5-6

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Ecclesiastes 11:6

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

Isaiah 5:6

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.

Isaiah 30:23

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

Isaiah 31:1

Woe to them that 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 unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek Jehovah!

Isaiah 32:20

Blessed are yet that sow beside all waters, that send forth the feet of the ox and the ass.

Isaiah 55:6

Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found; call ye upon him while he is near:

Jeremiah 4:3-4

For thus saith Jehovah to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

Jeremiah 29:12-14

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

Jeremiah 50:4

In those days, and in that time, saith Jehovah, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek Jehovah their God.

Ezekiel 34:26

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.

Hosea 12:6

Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep kindness and justice, and wait for thy God continually.

Amos 5:4

For thus saith Jehovah unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live;

Amos 5:6

Seek Jehovah, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.

Amos 5:8

seek him that maketh the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth (Jehovah is his name);

Amos 5:15

Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in the gate: it may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

Zephaniah 2:1-3

Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation that hath no shame;

Luke 13:24

Strive to enter in by the narrow door: for many, I say unto you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

Acts 2:18

Yea and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days Will I pour forth of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.

1 Corinthians 3:6-7

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

James 3:18

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace.

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