Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I will be as dew to Israel, and he shall flourish as a lily, and stretch out his roots as Lebanon.

New American Standard Bible

I will be like the dew to Israel;
He will blossom like the lily,
And he will take root like the cedars of Lebanon.

King James Version

I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

Holman Bible

I will be like the dew to Israel;
he will blossom like the lily
and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.

International Standard Version

I will be like the dew to Israel; Israel will blossom like a lily, growing roots like the cedars of Lebanon.

A Conservative Version

I will be as the dew to Israel. He shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

American Standard Version

I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

Amplified


I shall be like the dew to Israel;
He will blossom like the lily,
And he will take root like the cedars of Lebanon.

Bible in Basic English

I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon.

Darby Translation

I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

Julia Smith Translation

I will be as the dew to Israel: he shall blossom as the lily and strike his roots as Lebanon.

King James 2000

I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

Lexham Expanded Bible

I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily plant, and he will strike his roots like the [trees of] Lebanon.

Modern King James verseion

I will be as the dew to Israel; he shall grow as the lily and cast out his roots like Lebanon.

NET Bible

I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily, he will send down his roots like a cedar of Lebanon.

New Heart English Bible

I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.

The Emphasized Bible

I will become as the dew unto Israel, he shall break forth as the lily, - and he shall strike his roots as Lebanon:

Webster

I will be as the dew to Israel: he shall grow as the lily and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

World English Bible

I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.

Youngs Literal Translation

I am as dew to Israel, he flourisheth as a lily, And he striketh forth his roots as Lebanon.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
I will be as the dew
טל 
Tal 
dew
Usage: 31

ישׂראל 
Yisra'el 
Usage: 2505

he shall grow
פּרח 
Parach 
Usage: 37

as the lily
שׁושׁנּה שׁשׁן שׁושׁן שׁוּשׁן 
Shuwshan 
Usage: 15

and cast forth
נכה 
Nakah 
Usage: 501

שׁרשׁ 
Sheresh 
Usage: 33

Devotionals

Devotionals about Hosea 14:5

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Smith

Watsons

Images Hosea 14:5

Prayers for Hosea 14:5

Context Readings

A Promise Of Restoration

4 I will heal their obedience and will love them of mine own accord: for my wrath is ceased from them. 5 I will be as dew to Israel, and he shall flourish as a lily, and stretch out his roots as Lebanon. 6 His branches shall run out, and as an olive tree shall his glory be, and his savour as Lebanon.


Cross References

Isaiah 35:2

She shall flourish pleasantly, and be joyful, and ever be giving thanks more and more. For the glory of Lebanon, the beauty of Carmel and Sharon shall be given her. These shall know the honour of the LORD, and the majesty of our God.

Job 29:19

For my root was spread out by the water's side, and the dew lay upon my corn.

Proverbs 19:12

The king's disfavor is like the roaring of a Lion, but his friendship is like the dew upon the grass.

Isaiah 26:19

But as for thy dead men and ours, that be departed, they are in life and resurrection. They lie in the earth, they wake, and have joy: for thy dew is a dew of life and light. But the place of the malicious Tyrants is fallen away.

Isaiah 27:6

It will come to this point, that Jacob shall be rooted again, and Israel shall be green, and bear flowers, and they shall fill the whole world with their fruit.

Matthew 6:28

And why care ye then for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They labor not, neither spin:

Deuteronomy 32:2

My doctrine drop, as doth the rain; and my speech flow, as doth the dew - as the mizzling upon the herbs, and as the drops upon the grass.

2 Samuel 23:4

shall be as the morning light, when the sun shineth in a morning in which are no clouds to let the brightness; and as the grass of the earth is by the virtue of the rain.'

2 Kings 19:30

For the daughter of Judah that is escaped and left, shall yet again take rooting downward and bear fruit upward.

Psalm 72:6

He shall come down like the rain into a fleece of wool, even as the drops that water the earth.

Psalm 72:16

There shall be a heap of corn in the earth, high upon the hills; his fruit shall shake like Lebanon, and shall be green in the city like grass upon the earth.

Song of Songs 2:1-2

I am the flower of the field, and lilies of the valleys.

Song of Songs 2:16

My love is mine, and I am his, which feedeth among the lilies,

Song of Songs 4:5

Thy two breasts are like two twins of young roes, which feed among the lilies.

Isaiah 18:4

For thus hath the LORD said unto me: "I will take my rest, and look upon the matter in my habitation, like a fair heat after the rain, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."

Isaiah 44:3

For I shall pour water upon the dry ground, and rivers upon the thirsty. I shall pour my spirit upon thy seed, and mine increase upon thy stock.

Ezekiel 17:22-24

"'Thus sayeth the LORD God: I will also take a branch from a high Cedar tree, and will set it, and take the uppermost twig, that yet is but tender, and plant it upon a high hill:

Micah 5:7

And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the multitude of people, as the dew of the LORD, and as the drops upon the grass, that tarrieth for no man, and waiteth of nobody.

Luke 12:27

Consider the lilies, how they grow. They labor not. They spin not. And yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all this royalty was not clothed like to one of these.

Ephesians 3:17

that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

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