Hosea 10:12

God calls Israel to sow righteousness and break up their hardened hearts so they may seek him and receive his blessing. It is a gracious summons to repentance with the promise of restored fellowship.

Cross-references · 29

• Jer 4:3–4For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.
• Jas 3:18Peacemakers who sow in peace reap the fruit of righteousness.
• Isa 45:8Drip down, O heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open up that salvation may sprout and righteousness spring up with it; I, the LORD, have created it.
• Prov 11:18The wicked man earns an empty wage, but he who sows righteousness reaps a true reward.
• Isa 55:6Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
• Hos 6:3So let us know—let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.
• Jer 29:12–14Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
• Isa 44:3For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.
• Eccl 11:6Sow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hands in the evening, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or if both will equally prosper.
• Ps 105:4Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.
• Zeph 2:1–3Gather yourselves, gather together, O shameful nation,
• Amos 5:15Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
• Luke 13:24“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.
• Isa 31:1Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.
• Amos 5:6Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.
• 1 Cor 3:6–7I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
• Amos 5:4For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!
• Hos 12:6But you must return to your God, maintaining love and justice, and always waiting on your God.
• Amos 5:8He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth—the LORD is His name—
• Hos 8:7For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
• Isa 32:20Blessed are those who sow beside abundant waters, who let the ox and donkey range freely.
• Ezek 34:26I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season—showers of blessing.
• Acts 2:18Even on My menservants and maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.
• Ps 126:5–6Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.
• Isa 30:23Then He will send rain for the seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food that comes from your land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.
• Ps 72:6May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.
• Isa 5:6I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
• Prov 18:21Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
• Jer 50:4“In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together, weeping as they come, and will seek the LORD their God.

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