12Sow 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. …
Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)Here, I. They are put in mind of the sins of their fathers and predecessors, for which God would now reckon with them. It was told them (Hos. 9:9) that they had corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah , and here (Hos. 10:9), O Israel! thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah . Not only the wickedness that was committed in that age is revived in this, and reacted, a copy from that original,…
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