Hosea 10:12
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.

Young's Literal Translation
Sow for yourselves in righteousness, Reap according to loving-kindness, Till for yourselves tillage of knowledge, To seek Jehovah, Till he come and shew righteousness to you.

King James Bible
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.

Hebrew
Sow
זִרְע֨וּ (zir·‘ū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 2232: To sow, to disseminate, plant, fructify

for yourselves
לָכֶ֤ם (lā·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew

righteousness
לִצְדָקָה֙ (liṣ·ḏā·qāh)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 6666: Rightness, subjectively, objectively

and reap the fruit
קִצְר֣וּ (qiṣ·rū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 7114: To dock off, curtail, to harvest

of loving devotion;
חֶ֔סֶד (ḥe·seḏ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2617: Kindness, piety, reproof, beauty

break up
נִ֥ירוּ (nî·rū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 5214: To break up, freshly till

your
לָכֶ֖ם (lā·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew

unplowed ground.
נִ֑יר (nîr)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5215: Plowing, freshly plowed land

For [it is] time
וְעֵת֙ (wə·‘êṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - common singular
Strong's 6256: Time, now, when

to seek
לִדְר֣וֹשׁ (liḏ·rō·wōš)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 1875: To tread, frequent, to follow, to seek, ask, to worship

the LORD
יְהוָ֔ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3069: YHWH

until
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

He comes
יָב֕וֹא (yā·ḇō·w)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

and sends righteousness
צֶ֖דֶק (ṣe·ḏeq)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6664: The right, equity, prosperity

upon you
לָכֶֽם׃ (lā·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew

like rain.
וְיֹרֶ֥ה (wə·yō·reh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3384: To flow as water, to lay, throw, to point out, to teach

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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