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 Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.
• Jas 3:18Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
• Isa 45:8Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.
• Prov 11:18Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
• Isa 55:6Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
• Hos 6:3Let us acknowledge Yahweh. Let us press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
• Jer 29:12–14You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
• Isa 44:3For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:
• Eccl 11:6In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.
• Ps 105:4Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
• Zeph 2:1–3Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, you nation that has no shame,
• Amos 5:15Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
• Luke 13:24“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
• Isa 31:1Woe to those who 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 don’t look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don’t seek Yahweh!
• Amos 5:6Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.
• 1 Cor 3:6–7I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
• Amos 5:4For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;
• Hos 12:6Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.
• Amos 5:8seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,
• Hos 8:7For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
• Isa 32:20Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.
• Ezek 34:26I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.
• Acts 2:18Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days, I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.
• Ps 126:5–6Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.
• Isa 30:23He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.
• Ps 72:6He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.
• Isa 5:6I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”
• Prov 18:21Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.
• Jer 50:4“In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping, and will seek Yahweh their God.

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