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 thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
• Jas 3:18And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
• Isa 45:8Drop 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.
• Prov 11:18The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
• Isa 55:6Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
• Hos 6:3Then 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.
• Jer 29:12–14Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
• Isa 44:3For 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:
• Eccl 11:6In 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.
• Ps 105:4Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.
• Zeph 2:1–3Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;
• Amos 5:15Hate 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.
• Luke 13:24Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
• Isa 31:1Woe 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!
• Amos 5:6Seek 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.
• 1 Cor 3:6–7I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
• Amos 5:4For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
• Hos 12:6Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
• Amos 5:8Seek 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:
• Hos 8:7For 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 32:20Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.
• Ezek 34:26And 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.
• Acts 2:18And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
• Ps 126:5–6They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
• Isa 30:23Then 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.
• Ps 72:6He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
• Isa 5:6And 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.
• Prov 18:21Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
• Jer 50:4In 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.

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