Hosea 14:5
I will heal their contrition; I will love them spontaneously. For my wrath has been turned away from them.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:2Let my doctrine accumulate like the rain. Let my eloquence form like the dew, like a mist upon the plants, and like water droplets upon the grass.
2 Kings 19:30And whatever will have been left behind, from the house of Judah, shall send a root downward, and shall bear fruit upward.
Psalms 72:6Therefore, arrogance has held on to them. They have been covered with their iniquity and impiety.
Song of Solomon 2:1Bride: I am a flower of the open field and a lily of the steep valleys.
Song of Solomon 4:5Your two breasts are like two young does, twins that pasture among the lilies.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 14:5-8
Assurance of Mercy; Repentance of Ephraim. ( b. c. 720.) 4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. 5 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. 6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. 7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon. We have here… Read the whole commentary →