Hosea 10:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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.

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  • Jer 4:3-4 : 3 For thus said Jehovah, To the man of Judah, and to Jerusalem: Till for yourselves tillage, And do not sow unto the thorns. 4 Be circumcised to Jehovah, And turn aside the foreskins of your heart, O man of Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, Lest My fury go out as fire, and hath burned, And there is none quenching, Because of the evil of your doings.
  • Prov 11:18 : 18 The wicked is getting a lying wage, And whoso is sowing righteousness -- a true reward.
  • Hos 6:3 : 3 And we know -- we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain -- sprinkling earth.'
  • Isa 45:8 : 8 Drop, ye heavens, from above, And clouds do cause righteousness to flow, Earth openeth, and they are fruitful, Salvation and righteousness spring up together, I, Jehovah, have prepared it.
  • Jas 3:18 : 18 and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.
  • Isa 55:6 : 6 Seek ye Jehovah, while He is found, Call ye Him, while He is near,
  • Hos 8:7 : 7 For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none -- a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield -- strangers do swallow it up.
  • Isa 44:3 : 3 For I pour waters on a thirsty one, And floods on a dry land, I pour My Spirit on thy seed, And My blessing on thine offspring.
  • Jer 29:12-14 : 12 `And ye have called Me, and have gone, and have prayed unto Me, and I have hearkened unto you, 13 And ye have sought Me, and have found, for ye seek Me with all your heart; 14 And I have been found of you -- an affirmation of Jehovah; and I have turned back `to' your captivity, and have gathered you out of all the nations, and out of all the places whither I have driven you -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- and I have brought you back unto the place whence I removed you.
  • Jer 50:4 : 4 In those days, and at that time, An affirmation of Jehovah, Come in do sons of Israel, They and sons of Judah together, Going on and weeping they go, And Jehovah their God they seek.
  • Ezek 34:26 : 26 And I have given them, and the suburbs of my hill, a blessing, And caused the shower to come down in its season, Showers of blessing they are.
  • Hos 12:6 : 6 And thou, through thy God, dost turn, Kindness and judgment keep thou, And wait on thy God continually.
  • Amos 5:4 : 4 For thus said Jehovah to the house of Israel: Seek ye Me, and live,
  • Amos 5:6 : 6 Seek ye Jehovah, and live, Lest He prosper as fire `against' the house of Joseph, And it hath consumed, And there is no quencher for Beth-El.
  • Amos 5:8 : 8 The maker of Kimah and Kesil, And the turner to morning of death-shade, And day `as' night He hath made dark, Who is calling to the waters of the sea, And poureth them on the face of the earth, Jehovah `is' His name;
  • Amos 5:15 : 15 Hate evil, and love good, And set up judgment in the gate, It may be Jehovah, God of Hosts, doth pity the remnant of Joseph.
  • Zeph 2:1-3 : 1 Bend yourselves, yea, bend ye, O nation not desired, 2 Before the bringing forth of a statute, As chaff hath the day passed on, While yet not come in upon you doth the heat of the anger of Jehovah, While yet not come in upon you doth a day of the anger of Jehovah, 3 Seek Jehovah, all ye humble of the land, Who His judgment have done, Seek ye righteousness, seek humility, It may be ye are hidden in a day of the anger of Jehovah.
  • Luke 13:24 : 24 `Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;
  • Acts 2:18 : 18 and also upon My men-servants, and upon My maid-servants, in those days, I will pour out of My Spirit, and they shall prophesy;
  • 1 Cor 3:6-7 : 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth; 7 so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth -- God;
  • Ps 72:6 : 6 He cometh down as rain on mown grass, As showers -- sprinkling the earth.
  • Ps 105:4 : 4 Seek ye Jehovah and His strength, Seek ye His face continually.
  • Ps 126:5-6 : 5 Those sowing in tears, with singing do reap, 6 Whoso goeth on and weepeth, Bearing the basket of seed, Surely cometh in with singing, bearing his sheaves!
  • Prov 18:21 : 21 Death and life `are' in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.
  • Eccl 11:6 : 6 In the morning sow thy seed, And at even withdraw not thy hand, For thou knowest not which is right, this or that, Or whether both of them alike `are' good.
  • Isa 5:6 : 6 And I make it a waste, It is not pruned, nor arranged, And gone up have brier and thorn, And on the thick clouds I lay a charge, From raining upon it rain.
  • Isa 30:23 : 23 And He hath given rain `for' thy seed, With which thou dost sow the ground, And bread, the increase of the ground, And it hath been fat and plenteous, Enjoy do thy cattle in that day an enlarged pasture.
  • Isa 31:1 : 1 Wo `to' those going down to Egypt for help, And on horses lean, And trust on chariots, because many, And on horsemen, because very strong, And have not looked on the Holy One of Israel, And Jehovah have not sought.
  • Isa 32:20 : 20 Happy `are' ye sowing by all waters, Sending forth the foot of the ox and the ass!

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  • 13Ye have ploughed wickedness, Perversity ye have reaped, Ye have eaten the fruit of lying, For thou hast trusted in thy way, In the abundance of thy might.

  • 3For thus said Jehovah, To the man of Judah, and to Jerusalem: Till for yourselves tillage, And do not sow unto the thorns.

  • 1They asked of Jehovah rain in a time of latter rain, Jehovah is making lightnings, And rain `in' showers He doth give to them. To each -- the herb in the field.

  • Hos 10:10-11
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    10When I desire, then I do bind them, And gathered against them have peoples, When they bind themselves to their two iniquities.

    11And Ephraim `is' a trained heifer -- loving to thresh, And I -- I have passed over on the goodness of its neck, I cause `one' to ride Ephraim, Plough doth Judah, harrow for him doth Jacob.

  • 10Its ridges have been filled, Deepened hath been its furrow, With showers Thou dost soften it, Its springing up Thou blessest.

  • 10For, as come down doth the shower, And the snow from the heavens, And thither returneth not, But hath watered the earth, And hath caused it to yield, and to spring up, And hath given seed to the sower, and bread to the eater,

  • 23And He hath given rain `for' thy seed, With which thou dost sow the ground, And bread, the increase of the ground, And it hath been fat and plenteous, Enjoy do thy cattle in that day an enlarged pasture.

  • 11In the day thy plant thou causest to become great, And in the morning thy seed makest to flourish, A heap `is' the harvest in a day of overflowing, And of mortal pain.

  • 10and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

  • 14that I have given the rain of your land in its season -- sprinkling and gathered -- and thou hast gathered thy corn, and thy new wine, and thine oil,

  • 7Because the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts `Is' the house of Israel, And the man of Judah His pleasant plant, And He waiteth for judgment, and lo, oppression, For righteousness, and lo, a cry.

  • 13They sowed wheat, and have thorns reaped, They have become sick -- they profit not, And they have been ashamed of your increases, Because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah.

  • Lev 26:4-5
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    4then I have given your rains in their season, and the land hath given her produce, and the tree of the field doth give its fruit;

    5and reached to you hath the threshing, the gathering, and the gathering doth reach the sowing-`time'; and ye have eaten your bread to satiety, and have dwelt confidently in your land.

  • 13Lo, days are coming -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And come nigh hath the ploughman to the reaper, And the treader of grapes to the scatterer of seed, And the mountains have dropt juice, And all the hills do melt.

  • 13Send ye forth a sickle, For ripened hath harvest, Come in, come down, for filled hath been the press, Overflowed hath wine-presses, For great `is' their wickedness.

  • 17Rotted have scattered things under their clods, Desolated have been storehouses, Broken down have been granaries, For withered hath the corn.

  • 7For earth, that is drinking in the rain many times coming upon it, and is bringing forth herbs fit for those because of whom also it is dressed, doth partake of blessing from God,

  • 24And they have not said in their heart, `Let us fear, we pray you, Jehovah our God, who is giving rain, The sprinkling and the gathered, in its season, The appointed weeks of harvest He keepeth for us.'

  • 7For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none -- a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield -- strangers do swallow it up.

  • 8As I have seen -- ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!

  • 23And ye sons of Zion, joy and rejoice, In Jehovah your God, For He hath given to you the Teacher for righteousness, And causeth to come down to you a shower, Sprinkling and gathered -- in the beginning.

  • Ps 85:11-12
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    11Truth from the earth springeth up, And righteousness from heaven looketh out,

    12Jehovah also giveth that which is good, And our land doth give its increase.

  • 9For, lo, I `am' for you, and have turned to you, And ye have been tilled and sown.

  • 12Do horses run on a rock? Doth one plough `it' with oxen? For ye have turned to gall judgment, And the fruit of righteousness to wormwood.

  • 3Seek Jehovah, all ye humble of the land, Who His judgment have done, Seek ye righteousness, seek humility, It may be ye are hidden in a day of the anger of Jehovah.

  • 37And they sow fields, and plant vineyards, And they make fruits of increase.

  • 7Ye who are turning to wormwood judgment, And righteousness to the earth have put down,

  • 10Therefore, over you refrained have the heavens from dew, And the land hath refrained its increase.

  • 7Be patient, then, brethren, till the presence of the Lord; lo, the husbandman doth expect the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, till he may receive rain -- early and latter;

  • 12Therefore, for your sake, Zion is ploughed a field, and Jerusalem is heaps, And the mount of the house `is' for high places of a forest!

  • 12Because of the sowing of peace, The vine doth give her fruit, And the earth doth give her increase, And the heavens do give their dew, And I have caused the remnant of this people To inherit all these.

  • 6And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap;

  • 11Be ashamed, ye husbandmen, Howl, vine-dressers, for wheat and for barley, For perished hath the harvest of the field.

  • 17Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive `for' the widow.

  • 24The whole day plougheth the ploughman to sow? He openeth and harroweth his ground!

  • 5Those sowing in tears, with singing do reap,

  • 4What do I do to thee, O Ephraim? What do I do to thee, O Judah? Your goodness `is' as a cloud of the morning, And as dew rising early -- going.

  • 30-- And this to thee `is' the sign, Food of the year `is' self-sown grain, And in the second year the spontaneous growth, And in the third year, sow ye and reap, And plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

  • 9`And in your reaping the harvest of your land ye do not completely reap the corner of thy field, and the gleaning of thy harvest thou dost not gather,

  • 8because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;

  • 11For, as the earth bringeth forth her shoots, And as a garden causeth its sown things to shoot up, So the Lord Jehovah causeth righteousness and praise To shoot up before all the nations!

  • 6And thou, through thy God, dost turn, Kindness and judgment keep thou, And wait on thy God continually.

  • 6In a field his provender they reap, And the vineyard of the wicked they glean.

  • 4Because the ground hath been broken, For there hath been no rain in the land, Ashamed have been husbandmen, They have covered their head.

  • 10or because of us by all means doth He say `it'? yes, because of us it was written, because in hope ought the plower to plow, and he who is treading `ought' of his hope to partake in hope.

  • 12And also now -- an affirmation of Jehovah, Turn ye back unto Me with all your heart, And with fasting, and with weeping, And with lamentation.

  • 20Happy `are' ye sowing by all waters, Sending forth the foot of the ox and the ass!