Hosea 10:12 Cross References - MLV

¹² Sow to yourselves in righteousness. Reap according to kindness. Break up your* tillable ground, for it is time to seek Jehovah, till he comes and rains righteousness upon you*.

⁶ He will come down like rain upon the mowed grass, as showers that water the earth.

⁴ Seek Jehovah and his strength. Seek his face continually.

⁵ Those who sow in tears will reap in joy. ⁶ He who goes forth and weeps, bearing seed for sowing, will doubtless come again with joy, bringing his sheaves.

¹⁸ A wicked man earns deceitful wages, but he who sows righteousness has a sure reward.

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue and those who love it will eat the fruit of it.

⁶ Sow your seed in the morning and do not withhold your hand in the evening, because you do not know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be good alike.

⁶ And I will lay it waste. It will not be pruned nor hoed, but there will come up briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

²³ And he will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground and bread of the increase of the ground and it will be fat and plenteous. In that day your cattle will feed in large pastures.

¹ Woe 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 do not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek Jehovah!

²⁰ You* who sow beside all waters, who send forth the feet of the ox and the donkey are fortunate.

³ For I will pour water upon him who is thirsty and streams upon the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit upon your seed and my blessing upon your offspring.

⁸ Drop down, you* heavens, from above and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open that it may bring forth salvation and let it cause righteousness to spring up together. I, Jehovah, have created it.

⁶ Seek Jehovah while he may be found. Call you* upon him while he is near.

³ For Jehovah says thus to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your* tillable ground and sow not among thorns. ⁴ Circumcise yourselves to Jehovah and take away the foreskins of your* heart, you* men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, lest my wrath go forth like fire and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your* practices.

¹² And you* will call upon me and you* will go and pray to me and I will listen to you*.
¹³ And you* will seek me and find me when you* will search for me with all your* heart. ¹⁴ And I will be found by you*, says Jehovah and I will turn again your* captivity. And I will gather you* from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you*, says Jehovah and I will bring you* again to the place from where I caused you* to be carried away captive.

⁴ In those days and in that time, says Jehovah, the sons of Israel will come, they and the sons of Judah together. They will go on their way weeping and will seek Jehovah their God.

²⁶ And I will make them and the places all around my hill a blessing and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there will be showers of blessing.

³ And let us know, let us follow on to know Jehovah. His going forth is sure as the morning and he will come to us as the rain, as the latter rain that waters the earth.

⁷ For they sow the wind and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The blade will yield no meal. Perhaps it yields, strangers will swallow it up.

⁶ Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice and wait for your God continually.

⁴ For Jehovah says thus to the house of Israel: Seek me and you* will live.

⁶ Seek Jehovah and you* will live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph and it devour and there is none to quench it in Bethel.

⁸ seek he who makes 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 upon the face of the earth (Jehovah is his name),

¹⁵ Hate the evil and love the good and establish justice in the gate. It may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

¹ Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, O nation that has no shame; ² before the decree bring forth, before the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Jehovah comes upon you*, before the day of Jehovah's anger comes upon you*.
³ Seek Jehovah, all you* meek of the earth who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness, seek meekness. It may be you* will be hid in the day of Jehovah's anger.

²⁴ Struggle to enter in through the narrow gate, because I am saying to you, Many will be seeking to enter in and will not be strong-enough.

¹⁸ For-sure, I will pour out of my Spirit upon my male bondservants and upon my female bondservants in those days, and they will prophesy.

⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. ⁷ So-then neither is the one who is planting anything, nor the one who is watering, but God who is causing the growth.

¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who are making peace.