Hosea 14:5

A Promise Of Restoration

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I will heal their apostasy and faithlessness;
I will love them freely,
For My anger has turned away from Israel.
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I shall be like the dew to Israel;
He will blossom like the lily,
And he will take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
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His shoots will sprout,
And his beauty will be like the olive tree
And his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.

Cedars of Lebanon

Israel

Lebanon

Isaiah 35:2

It will blossom abundantly
And rejoice with joy and singing.
The glory of Lebanon will be given to it,
The majesty of [Mount] Carmel and [the plain] of Sharon.
They will see the glory of the Lord,
The majesty and splendor of our God.

Job 29:19

‘My root is spread out and open to the waters,
And the dew lies all night upon my branch.

Proverbs 19:12

The king’s wrath terrifies like the roaring of a lion,
But his favor is as [refreshing and nourishing as] dew on the grass.

Isaiah 26:19

Your dead will live;
Their dead bodies will rise.
You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy!
For your dew is a dew of [celestial] light [heavenly, supernatural],
And the earth will give birth to the spirits of the dead.

Isaiah 27:6

In the generations to come Jacob will take root;
Israel will blossom and sprout,
And they will fill the surface of the world with fruit.

Matthew 6:28

And why are you worried about clothes? See how the lilies and wildflowers of the field grow; they do not labor nor do they spin [wool to make clothing],

Deuteronomy 32:2

“Let my teaching drop as the rain,
My speech distill as the dew,
As the light rain upon the tender grass,
And as the spring showers upon the herb.

2 Samuel 23:4

Is like the morning light when the sun rises,
A morning without clouds,
When the fresh grass springs out of the earth
Through sunshine after rain.’

2 Kings 19:30

The survivors who remain of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

Psalm 72:6

May he come down like rain on the mown grass,
Like showers that water the earth.

Psalm 72:16

There will be an abundance of grain in the soil on the top of the mountains;
Its fruit will wave like [the cedars of] Lebanon,
And those of the city will flourish like grass of the earth.

Song of Songs 2:1-2

“I am the rose [of the plain] of Sharon,
The lily of the valleys [that grows in deep places].”

Song of Songs 2:16

(The Shulammite Bride)
“My beloved is mine and I am his;
He pastures his flock among the lilies.

Song of Songs 4:5

“Your two breasts are like two fawns,
Twins of a gazelle
Which feed among the lilies.

Isaiah 18:4

For this is what the Lord has said to me,

“I will be quiet and I will look on from My dwelling place,
Like shimmering heat above the sunshine,
Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

Isaiah 44:3

‘For I will pour out water on him who is thirsty,
And streams on the dry ground;
I will pour out My Spirit on your offspring
And My blessing on your descendants;

Ezekiel 17:22-24

Thus says the Lord God, “I Myself will take a twig from the lofty top of the cedar and will set it out; I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.

Micah 5:7

Then the remnant of Jacob
Shall be among many peoples
Like dew from the Lord,
Like showers on the grass [a source of blessing]
Which [come suddenly and] do not wait for man
Nor delay for the sons of men.

Luke 12:27

Consider the lilies and wildflowers, how they grow [in the open field]. They neither labor nor spin [wool to make clothing]; yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory and splendor dressed himself like one of these.

Ephesians 3:17

so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through your faith. And may you, having been [deeply] rooted and [securely] grounded in love,