Verse of the Day
Author Spotlight
Loading featured author...
Report Issue
See a formatting issue or error?
Let us know →
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness; break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he come and rain righteousness on you.
Verse Takeaways
1
The Spiritual Farming Cycle
Hosea uses farming to describe the spiritual life. Commentators explain that "sowing in righteousness" means living piously and justly. "Breaking up fallow ground" refers to repentance and softening a hardened heart. The promise is to "reap according to mercy," receiving a harvest not based on what we've earned, but on God's abundant grace.
See 3 Verse Takeaways
Book Overview
Hosea
Author
Audience
Composition
Teaching Highlights
Outline
+ 5 more
See Overview
5
18th Century
Presbyterian
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy – Literally, “in the proportion of mercy,” not in proportion to what you have sown, nor wh…
19th Century
Anglican
In their despair, come some characteristic gleams of hope on the desolation; the eternal law which makes reaping a consequence of sowing will still…
16th Century
Protestant
Here he exhorts the Israelites to repentance, though it seems not to be a simple and mere exhortation, but rather a protestation, as though the Lor…
Go ad-free and create your own bookmark library
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Saw to yourselves in righteousness Not the seed of grace, which bad men has not, and cannot sow it; and which good me…
Because God does not desire the death and ruin of sinners, He therefore, in mercy, desires their chastisement. The children of iniquity still remai…
