Hosea 14:5
I will restore their dwellings, I will love them truly: for he has turned away my wrath from him.
Brenton Septuagint
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
6I will be as dew to Israel: he shall bloom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Libanus.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:2Let my speech be looked for as the rain, and my words come down as dew, as the shower upon the herbage, and as snow upon the grass.
2 Kings 19:30And he shall + 19:30 Gr. add.increase + 19:30 Gr. τὸ διασες. οἴκον.him that has escaped of the house of Juda: and the remnant shall strike root beneath, and it shall produce fruit above.
Psalms 72:6Therefore pride has possessed them; they have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness.
Song of Solomon 2:1I am a flower of the plain, a lily of the valleys.
Song of Solomon 4:5Thy two breasts are as two twin fawns, that feed 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 →