Hosea 10:12

You plow your fields and plant your seeds and harvest your crops [MET], but what you need to do is to act righteously and to faithfully love me; you need to repent [MET], because it is time to try to know me, Yahweh; and if you do that, I will pour out [MET] many blessings on you.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

In Context

11Israel is like [MET] a well-trained ◄heifer/young cow► that likes to thresh grain. So now you will become slaves. It will be as though I will put a yoke on your neck, and you will be forced to work hard for your enemies in their fields. You people of Israel and Judah will be forced to go to Assyria; there you [DOU] will pull plows to break up the ground for planting seeds.

13You plant seeds and harvest the crops and eat them; but what I consider that you have really done is that you have planted wicked things and harvested evil things and eaten [MET] the results [IDM] of the lies that you have told. Instead of trusting in me, you have ◄depended on/trusted in► your own power and in your many soldiers.

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Cross References

Psalms 72:6I desire that my rule will be enjoyed by the people [SIM] like they enjoy rain on growing crops, like they enjoy showers that fall on the land.

Psalms 126:5We cried when we planted seeds because it was hard work preparing the soil that had not been plowed for many years; now we want to shout joyfully because we are gathering a big harvest.

Proverbs 18:21What you say can cause others to be killed or it can cause them to continue to live; so those who like to talk a lot must ◄accept the consequences/realize that what they say can cause much harm►.

Isaiah 5:6I will cause it to become a wasteland where the vines are not pruned and the ground is not hoed. It will be a place where briers and thorns [DOU] grow. And I will command that no rain will fall on it.”

Isaiah 31:1Terrible things will happen to those who reply on Egypt to help them, trusting in their soldiers’ horses and their many chariots and their strong chariot-drivers, instead of trusting that Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, will help them.

Isaiah 44:3I will pour water on your dry land and cause streams to flow. And I will pour out my Spirit on your descendants and greatly bless them.

Matthew Henry on Hosea 10:10-15

Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 730.) 9 O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them. 10 It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows. 11 And Ephraim is as a heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob… Read the whole commentary →

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