Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Hosea 10:12
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; (r) break up your fallow ground: for [it is] time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
(r) See Jeremiah 4:3
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; (r) break up your fallow ground: for [it is] time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
(r) See Jeremiah 4:3
Verse Hosea 10:12. _SOW TO YOURSELVES IN RIGHTEOUSNESS_] Let the seed you sow be of the best kind, and in just measure. _REAP IN MERCY_] By the blessing of God on this ploughing, sowing, and harrowin...
SOW TO YOURSELVES IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, REAP IN MERCY - Literally, “in the proportion of mercy,” not in proportion to what you have sown, nor what justice would give, but beyond all deserts, “in the propo...
CHAPTER 9:10-11:11 RETROSPECT, ISRAEL'S FAILURE AND RUIN _ 1. Israel once beloved, now fugitive wanderers (Hosea 9:10) _ 2. Their guilt and punishment (Hosea 10:1) 3. Exhortation and rebuke (Hosea...
ISRAEL MUST REAP THE RUIN HE HAS SOWN. From the days of Gibeah Israel has sinned, and never progressed since (Hosea 10:9, but see notes); Yahweh comes to punish them, and gather the peoples against th...
TO SEEK THE LORD. Ref to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 4:29). App-92. RAIN RIGHTEOUSNESS, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:2)....
A fresh demonstration of Israel's guiltiness. The prevalent depravity is comparable only to that of the men of Gibeah (see on Hosea 9:9). -The times are out of joint"; all Israel's doings are against...
If only a moral miracle could take place, Israel's calamities might yet be averted. Nor is it entirely inconceivable, for miracles, so Hosea thinks, can be wrought by an earnest resolution. Hence Hose...
SOW IN RIGHTEOUSNESS; REAP IN MERCY -- HOSEA 10:9-12 : Israel had never stopped sinning since that time at Gibeah. Now they faced attacked at Gibeah. Gibeah will always be remembered for the horrible...
DISCOURSE: 1168 THE DUTY OF SEEKING GOD Hosea 10:12. _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 righteousn...
SOW TO YOURSELVES IN RIGHTEOUSNESS— "Employ yourselves in works of justice and charity; and then, through the mercy of JEHOVAH, you may still hope to reap the fruits of your repentance and reformation...
REMONSTRATINGRENOVATE FALLOW GROUND TEXT: Hosea 10:12-14 12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness; break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Jehovah, till he come...
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. SOW TO YOURSELVES IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, RE...
DENUNCIATIONS AND ENTREATIES This prophecy appears to have been uttered at a later date than the last. There is no longer any mention of Egypt, but the calamity from Assyria seems imminent. Again Hos...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 10 THE RICHES OF ISRAEL LEAD TO HER *WORSHIP OF *IDOLS V1 Israel is like a *vine that grows plenty of fruit. But Israel became...
In their despair come some characteristic gleams of hope on the desolation; the eternal law which makes reaping a consequence of sowing will still apply. The mercy of God will be the harvest of a sowi...
זִרְע֨וּ לָכֶ֤ם לִ צְדָקָה֙ קִצְר֣וּ לְ פִי
5. ONCE MORE: PUPPET-KINGS AND PUPPET-GODS Hosea 10:1 For another section, the tenth chapter, the prophet returns to the twin targets of his scorn: the idols and the puppet-kings. But few notes are...
“BREAK UP YOUR FALLOW GROUND” Hosea 10:1-15 Israel brought forth fruit, but not such as God could delight in. It was corrupt and evil. How great a disappointment to the Great Cultivator! The land was...
The section dealing with pollution and its punishment closes with the prophet's recapitulation and appeal. The whole case is first stated under the figure of the vine. Israel was a luxuriant vine, and...
_Mouth. Hebrew, "in proportion to (Calmet) your piety." Septuagint, "gather a vintage of the fruit of life." (Haydock) --- Ground. Reform you conduct. (Calmet) --- Justice, when Christ shall appear, t...
In the opening of this paragraph we find blessed allusions to the person of Christ: for He, and He alone, is the righteousness to which God's people can sow; and as they are God's husbandry, so Jesus...
The rest of the prophecy consists of the indignant appeals of the Holy Spirit to conscience because of the increasing evils of Israel not so much the judgment of God on a grand scale, and His grace at...
He exhorts here the Israelites to repentance; though it seems not a simple and bare exhortation, but rather a protestation; as though the Lord had said, that he had hitherto laboured in vain as to the...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9, 10, AND 11. In CHAPTER 9 we have here that touching mixture of affection and judgment which we find again and again in this prophet. Ephraim should not rem...
SAW TO YOURSELVES IN RIGHTEOUSNESS,.... Not the seed of grace, which bad men have not, and cannot saw it; and which good men need not, it being sown in them already, and remaining; rather the seed of...
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. Ver. 12. _Sow to yourselves in righteo...
_Sow to yourselves in righteousness._ Exercise yourselves in the works of righteousness and holiness, in the performance of all duties due both to God and man. _Reap in mercy_ And then God, of his gra...
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, so that fairness and justice would be practiced toward all; REAP IN MERCY, in showing the true love toward all men and thereby being assured also of a benignant acc...
THE KINGDOM DEVASTATED...
9-15 Because God does not desire the death and ruin of sinners, therefore in mercy he desires their chastisement. The children of iniquity still remained in Israel. The enemies would be gathered agai...
SOW TO YOURSELVES IN RIGHTEOUSNESS: the prophet continueth his care of their welfare, by exhorting them yet at last to repent, which, as learned interpreters observe, the prophet doth here in the same...
Hosea 10:12 Sow H2232 (H8798) righteousness H6666 Reap H7114 (H8798) in H6310 mercy H2617 up H5214 ...
‘Sow to yourselves in righteousness, Reap in accordance with covenant love, Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek YHWH, Until he come and rain righteousness on you.' Ever ready to re...
ISRAEL ARE WARNED THAT THEY FACE ANOTHER GIBEAH BECAUSE ALTHOUGH HE HAD CHOSEN THEM AS HIS SERVANT (LIKE A TRAINED HEIFER) THEY HAVE RESPONDED WITH DISOBEDIENCE AND WICKEDNESS. A FINAL WAR OF DESTRUCT...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Further reproof for Israel's impiety. CHARACTERS: God, Jareb, King of Israel. CONCLUSION: If the grace of God prevail not to destroy the love of sin in us, i...
Hosea 10:1. _Israel is an empty vine._ So is the Hebrew, but the LXX read, “a well-branched vine;” that is, full of leaves, but destitute of fruit. Their fruits are the fruits of idolatry. The figures...
_Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground._ SPIRITUAL HUSBANDRY There is not a more melancholy delusion than this, that in religious life the grand object may be...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 10:11 EPHRAIM WAS A TRAINED CALF is another reference to Israel’s beginnings. Israel once loved to thresh in his field (see Deuteronomy 25:4
HOSEA 10:12.] A call to repentance. Sowing and reaping = moral conduct IN] Lit. for _right_, which must be the fruit. REAP] in the proportion of mercy, not justice; mercy from God and from man; mercy...
EXPOSITION The concluding thought of the last chapter is the commencing one of this; while the sad subject of Israel's guilt being resumed continues in the first section (Hosea 10:1) of the chapter, a...
Shall we turn to Hosea, chapter 10. It is God's purpose for our lives that we bring forth fruit. In Isaiah chapter 6 God likens the nation of Israel to a vineyard that was planted with good plants, th...
1 Corinthians 3:6; 1 Corinthians 3:7; Acts 2:18; Amos 5:15; Amos 5:4;...
Reap — And ye shall reap in mercy. Fallow ground — Your hearts are as ground over — run with weeds, which need to be plowed and broken up, that good seed may be sowed in them. And rain — Plentifully p...