Parallel Verses
- New Living Translation - I said, ‘Plant the good seeds of righteousness, and you will harvest a crop of love. Plow up the hard ground of your hearts, for now is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and shower righteousness upon you.’
- 新标点和合本 - 你们要为自己栽种公义， 就能收割慈爱。 现今正是寻求耶和华的时候； 你们要开垦荒地，等他临到， 使公义如雨降在你们身上。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 你们要为自己栽种公义， 收割慈爱。 你们要开垦荒地， 现今正是寻求耶和华的时候； 等他临到，公义必如雨降给你们。
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - 你们要为自己栽种公义， 收割慈爱。 你们要开垦荒地， 现今正是寻求耶和华的时候； 等他临到，公义必如雨降给你们。
- 当代译本 - 你们要为自己种植公义， 就能收获慈爱。 现在是寻求耶和华的时候， 你们要犁开刚硬的心田， 等祂来使公义如雨浇灌你们。
- 圣经新译本 - 你们要为自己撒种公义， 就能收割慈爱的果子， 你们要翻松荒地。 现在是寻求耶和华的时候， 直等到他来，降下公义的雨在你们身上。
- 现代标点和合本 - “你们要为自己栽种公义， 就能收割慈爱。 现今正是寻求耶和华的时候， 你们要开垦荒地，等他临到， 使公义如雨降在你们身上。
- 和合本（拼音版） - 你们要为自己栽种公义， 就能收割慈爱。 现今正是寻求耶和华的时候， 你们要开垦荒地，等他临到， 使公义如雨降在你们身上。
- New International Version - Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers his righteousness on you.
- New International Reader's Version - Your hearts are as hard as a field that has not been plowed. If you change your ways, you will produce good crops. So plant the seeds of doing what is right. Then you will harvest the fruit of your faithful love. It is time to seek the Lord. When you do, he will come and shower his blessings on you.
- English Standard Version - Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.
- Christian Standard Bible - Sow righteousness for yourselves and reap faithful love; break up your unplowed ground. It is time to seek the Lord until he comes and sends righteousness on you like the rain.
- New American Standard Bible - Sow for yourselves, with a view to righteousness; Harvest in accordance with kindness. Break up your uncultivated ground, For it is time to seek the Lord Until He comes and rains righteousness on you.
- New King James Version - Sow for yourselves righteousness; Reap in mercy; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the Lord, Till He comes and rains righteousness on you.
- Amplified Bible - Sow with a view to righteousness [that righteousness, like seed, may germinate]; Reap in accordance with mercy and lovingkindness. Break up your uncultivated ground, For it is time to seek and search diligently for the Lord [and to long for His blessing] Until He comes to rain righteousness and His gift of salvation on you.
- American Standard Version - Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness; break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Jehovah, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
- King James Version - 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.
- New English Translation - Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap unfailing love. Break up the unplowed ground for yourselves, for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers deliverance on you.
- World English Bible - Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
- 新標點和合本 - 你們要為自己栽種公義， 就能收割慈愛。 現今正是尋求耶和華的時候； 你們要開墾荒地，等他臨到， 使公義如雨降在你們身上。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 你們要為自己栽種公義， 收割慈愛。 你們要開墾荒地， 現今正是尋求耶和華的時候； 等他臨到，公義必如雨降給你們。
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 你們要為自己栽種公義， 收割慈愛。 你們要開墾荒地， 現今正是尋求耶和華的時候； 等他臨到，公義必如雨降給你們。
- 當代譯本 - 你們要為自己種植公義， 就能收穫慈愛。 現在是尋求耶和華的時候， 你們要犁開剛硬的心田， 等祂來使公義如雨澆灌你們。
- 聖經新譯本 - 你們要為自己撒種公義， 就能收割慈愛的果子， 你們要翻鬆荒地。 現在是尋求耶和華的時候， 直等到他來，降下公義的雨在你們身上。
- 呂振中譯本 - 你們要為自己播種義氣， 要收割忠愛之果子 ， 要耙鬆你們的休耕地； 因為現在正是尋永恆主的時候， 等他臨到， 下義氣之雨在你們身上。
- 現代標點和合本 - 「你們要為自己栽種公義， 就能收割慈愛。 現今正是尋求耶和華的時候， 你們要開墾荒地，等他臨到， 使公義如雨降在你們身上。
- 文理和合譯本 - 爾當以義播之、依仁穫之、尋求耶和華之時已屆、爾其開墾土壤、迨其臨蒞、雨爾以義、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 宜種仁義、則獲恩寵、開墾土壤、斯時當求耶和華、望彼誨爾以仁義、
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 宜種公義、則穫仁慈、今值求主之時、爾開墾土壤、待主來臨、為爾降恩雨、
- Nueva Versión Internacional - ¡Siembren para ustedes justicia! ¡Cosechen el fruto del amor, y pónganse a labrar el barbecho! ¡Ya es tiempo de buscar al Señor!, hasta que él venga y les envíe lluvias de justicia.
- 현대인의 성경 - “너희는 자신을 위해 의의 씨를 심고 사랑의 열매를 거두어라. 너희 마음의 묵은 땅을 갈아라. 지금은 나 여호와를 찾을 때이다. 언젠가는 내가 너희에게 구원의 복을 쏟아 부어 주겠다.
- Новый Русский Перевод - Сейте для себя праведность, и пожнете плоды верной любви; распашите свою целину, потому что настало время искать Господа, пока Он не придет и не изольет на вас праведность, как дождь.
- Восточный перевод - Сейте для себя праведность, и пожнёте плоды верной любви; распашите свою целину, потому что настало время искать Вечного, пока Он не придёт и не изольёт на вас праведность, как дождь.
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Сейте для себя праведность, и пожнёте плоды верной любви; распашите свою целину, потому что настало время искать Вечного, пока Он не придёт и не изольёт на вас праведность, как дождь.
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Сейте для себя праведность, и пожнёте плоды верной любви; распашите свою целину, потому что настало время искать Вечного, пока Он не придёт и не изольёт на вас праведность, как дождь.
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Semez pour la justice et vous moissonnerez ╵le fruit de la bonté. Défrichez-vous un champ nouveau car voici qu’il est temps ╵de se tourner vers l’Eternel en attendant qu’il vienne et qu’il fasse pleuvoir ╵la justice pour vous.
- リビングバイブル - 正義という種をまけ。 そうすれば、わたしの愛という実を刈り取る。 堅くなった心を耕せ。 今は主を求める時だ。 主は来て、救いを雨のように注いでくださる。
- Nova Versão Internacional - Semeiem a retidão para si, colham o fruto da lealdade e façam sulcos no seu solo não arado; pois é hora de buscar o Senhor, até que ele venha e faça chover justiça sobre vocês.
- Hoffnung für alle - Ich sagte zu ihnen: ›Wenn ihr Gerechtigkeit sät, werdet ihr meine Liebe und Treue ernten. Fangt ganz neu an wie ein Bauer, der ein brachliegendes Feld zum ersten Mal wieder bestellt! Denn die Zeit ist da, mich, den Herrn, zu suchen. Dann werde ich kommen und Gutes vom Himmel für euch regnen lassen.‹
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Ta phán: ‘Hãy gieo hạt giống công chính cho mình, thì các ngươi sẽ gặt sự thương xót. Hãy vỡ đất khô cứng của lòng các ngươi, vì bây giờ là lúc phải tìm kiếm Chúa Hằng Hữu, Ngài ngự đến và tuôn đổ sự công chính trên các ngươi.’
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - จงหว่านความชอบธรรมเพื่อตัวเจ้าเอง จงเก็บเกี่ยวผลแห่งความรักมั่นคง จงไถพรวนเนื้อดินที่ยังแข็งกระด้างของเจ้า เพราะถึงเวลาที่จะแสวงหาองค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้า จนกว่าพระองค์จะเสด็จมา และโปรยความชอบธรรมลงบนพวกเจ้าดั่งสายฝน
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - จงหว่านความชอบธรรมให้แก่พวกเจ้าเอง เก็บเกี่ยวผลแห่งความรักอันมั่นคง จงพรวนที่ดินของเจ้าที่ยังไม่ได้ไถ เพราะถึงเวลาที่จะแสวงหาพระผู้เป็นเจ้า เพื่อพระองค์จะมา และหลั่งความชอบธรรมลงบนพวกเจ้า
Cross Reference
- Ezekiel 34:26 - I will bless my people and their homes around my holy hill. And in the proper season I will send the showers they need. There will be showers of blessing.
- Jeremiah 50:4 - “In those coming days,” says the Lord, “the people of Israel will return home together with the people of Judah. They will come weeping and seeking the Lord their God.
- Isaiah 30:23 - Then the Lord will bless you with rain at planting time. There will be wonderful harvests and plenty of pastureland for your livestock.
- Psalms 72:6 - May the king’s rule be refreshing like spring rain on freshly cut grass, like the showers that water the earth.
- Psalms 105:4 - Search for the Lord and for his strength; continually seek him.
- Isaiah 5:6 - I will make it a wild place where the vines are not pruned and the ground is not hoed, a place overgrown with briers and thorns. I will command the clouds to drop no rain on it.
- Proverbs 18:21 - The tongue can bring death or life; those who love to talk will reap the consequences.
- Isaiah 31:1 - What sorrow awaits those who look to Egypt for help, trusting their horses, chariots, and charioteers and depending on the strength of human armies instead of looking to the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 32:20 - the Lord will greatly bless his people. Wherever they plant seed, bountiful crops will spring up. Their cattle and donkeys will graze freely.
- Psalms 126:5 - Those who plant in tears will harvest with shouts of joy.
- Psalms 126:6 - They weep as they go to plant their seed, but they sing as they return with the harvest.
- Acts of the Apostles 2:18 - In those days I will pour out my Spirit even on my servants—men and women alike— and they will prophesy.
- 1 Corinthians 3:6 - I planted the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow.
- 1 Corinthians 3:7 - It’s not important who does the planting, or who does the watering. What’s important is that God makes the seed grow.
- Amos 5:8 - It is the Lord who created the stars, the Pleiades and Orion. He turns darkness into morning and day into night. He draws up water from the oceans and pours it down as rain on the land. The Lord is his name!
- Amos 5:6 - Come back to the Lord and live! Otherwise, he will roar through Israel like a fire, devouring you completely. Your gods in Bethel won’t be able to quench the flames.
- Luke 13:24 - “Work hard to enter the narrow door to God’s Kingdom, for many will try to enter but will fail.
- Zephaniah 2:1 - Gather together—yes, gather together, you shameless nation.
- Zephaniah 2:2 - Gather before judgment begins, before your time to repent is blown away like chaff. Act now, before the fierce fury of the Lord falls and the terrible day of the Lord’s anger begins.
- Zephaniah 2:3 - Seek the Lord, all who are humble, and follow his commands. Seek to do what is right and to live humbly. Perhaps even yet the Lord will protect you— protect you from his anger on that day of destruction.
- Hosea 12:6 - So now, come back to your God. Act with love and justice, and always depend on him.
- Amos 5:15 - Hate evil and love what is good; turn your courts into true halls of justice. Perhaps even yet the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies will have mercy on the remnant of his people.
- Amos 5:4 - Now this is what the Lord says to the family of Israel: “Come back to me and live!
- Hosea 8:7 - “They have planted the wind and will harvest the whirlwind. The stalks of grain wither and produce nothing to eat. And even if there is any grain, foreigners will eat it.
- Isaiah 44:3 - For I will pour out water to quench your thirst and to irrigate your parched fields. And I will pour out my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your children.
- Ecclesiastes 11:6 - Plant your seed in the morning and keep busy all afternoon, for you don’t know if profit will come from one activity or another—or maybe both.
- Jeremiah 29:12 - In those days when you pray, I will listen.
- Jeremiah 29:13 - If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me.
- Jeremiah 29:14 - I will be found by you,” says the Lord. “I will end your captivity and restore your fortunes. I will gather you out of the nations where I sent you and will bring you home again to your own land.”
- James 3:18 - And those who are peacemakers will plant seeds of peace and reap a harvest of righteousness.
- Isaiah 55:6 - Seek the Lord while you can find him. Call on him now while he is near.
- Isaiah 45:8 - “Open up, O heavens, and pour out your righteousness. Let the earth open wide so salvation and righteousness can sprout up together. I, the Lord, created them.
- Proverbs 11:18 - Evil people get rich for the moment, but the reward of the godly will last.
- Hosea 6:3 - Oh, that we might know the Lord! Let us press on to know him. He will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn or the coming of rains in early spring.”
- Jeremiah 4:3 - This is what the Lord says to the people of Judah and Jerusalem: “Plow up the hard ground of your hearts! Do not waste your good seed among thorns.
- Jeremiah 4:4 - O people of Judah and Jerusalem, surrender your pride and power. Change your hearts before the Lord, or my anger will burn like an unquenchable fire because of all your sins.