Hosea 10:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

זִרְע֨וּ לָכֶ֤ם לִצְדָקָה֙ קִצְר֣וּ לְפִי־חֶ֔סֶד נִ֥ירוּ לָכֶ֖ם נִ֑יר וְעֵת֙ לִדְר֣וֹשׁ אֶת־יְהוָ֔ה עַד־יָב֕וֹא וְיֹרֶ֥ה צֶ֖דֶק לָכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

Zirʿû to yourselves to ṣədāqāh, qiṣrû according to pî-ḥesed, nîrû to yourselves nîr, and it is time lidrôš ʾet-YHWH, until he yābôʾ and yōreh ṣedeq to you.

Grammar Details

*Zirʿû*: verb, Qal, imperative, masculine, plural - sow
*ṣədāqāh*: noun, feminine, singular - righteousness
*qiṣrû*: verb, Qal, imperative, masculine, plural - reap
*pî*: noun, masculine, singular construct - mouth/measure
*ḥesed*: noun, masculine, singular - lovingkindness/mercy
*nîrû*: verb, Qal, imperative, masculine, plural - break up/till
*nîr*: noun, masculine, singular - unplowed ground/fallow ground
*lidrôš*: preposition + verb, Qal, infinitive construct - to seek
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD
*yābôʾ*: verb, Qal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular - he will come
*yōreh*: verb, Hiphil, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular - he will rain/teach
*ṣedeq*: noun, masculine, singular - righteousness

Word Meanings

*pî*: mouth/measure/according to
*yōreh*: rain down/teach/shoot

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Referenced Verses

Jer 4:3-4 : 3 For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. 4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Prov 11:18 : 18 The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
Hos 6:3 : 3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
Isa 45:8 : 8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
Jas 3:18 : 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
Isa 55:6 : 6 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
Hos 8:7 : 7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
Isa 44:3 : 3 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:
Jer 29:12-14 : 12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. 13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. 14 And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
Jer 50:4 : 4 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
Ezek 34:26 : 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 his season; there shall be showers of blessing.
Hos 12:6 : 6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
Amos 5:4 : 4 For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
Amos 5:6 : 6 Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.
Amos 5:8 : 8 Seek him that maketh the seven stars 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: The LORD is his name:
Amos 5:15 : 15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
Zeph 2:1-3 : 1 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; 2 Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD'S anger come upon you. 3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.
Luke 13:24 : 24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
Acts 2:18 : 18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
1 Cor 3:6-7 : 6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
Ps 72:6 : 6 He shall come down{H8799)} like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
Ps 105:4 : 4 Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.
Ps 126:5-6 : 5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. 6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
Prov 18:21 : 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Eccl 11:6 : 6 In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Isa 5:6 : 6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
Isa 30:23 : 23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
Isa 31:1 : 1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay 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 the LORD!
Isa 32:20 : 20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.

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