Hosea 10:12-15

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 is the only mercy in which they can reap. The figure of fallow ground is very striking, to point out the poverty and leanness of our nature. And the Lord raining righteousness upon his people, is as blessed a figure, whose promise to come to his people is as the rain, the latter rain, and the former in their season. Psalms 72:6. And the awfulness of the barren heath of sinners, which knoweth not when good cometh, is with the same truth set forth under the similitude of plowing wickedness and reaping iniquity.