Hosea 14:5

A Promise Of Restoration

⁴ I will heal their apostasy! I will love them freely for my anger has turned away from them. ⁵ I will be like the dew to Israel;
He will blossom like the lily,
And he will take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
⁶ His shoots will sprout and his beauty will be like the olive tree. His fragrance will be like the cedars of Lebanon.

Cedars of Lebanon

Israel

Lebanon

Isaiah 35:2

The desert will sing and shout for joy! It will be beautiful like the Lebanon Mountains. It will be fertile as the fields of Carmel and Sharon. Everyone will see Jehovah's splendor. They will see his greatness and power.

Job 29:19

My roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches.

Proverbs 19:12

The king's anger is like the roaring of a lion but his favor is like dew upon the grass.

Isaiah 26:19

But your dead will live. Their bodies will rise. You, who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy. Your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.

Isaiah 27:6

In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill the entire world with fruit.

Matthew 6:28

Why are you worried about clothing? Look at how the lilies of the field grow. They do not toil. They do not spin.

Deuteronomy 32:2

My instruction shall drop as the rain; my words shall descend like dew, as the gentle rains on the tender plant, and as the showers on vegetation.

2 Samuel 23:4

He is like the sun shining on a cloudless day. The sun that makes the grass sparkle after rain.

2 Kings 19:30

The remnant in Judah who survives will flourish like plants that send roots deep into the ground and produce fruit.

Psalm 72:6

He will come down like rain on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth.

Psalm 72:16

There shall be abundance of grain throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.

Song of Songs 2:1-2

I am the rose of Sharon, the lily of the valleys.

Song of Songs 2:16

(The Shulamite) My beloved is mine and I am his. He feeds among the lilies.

Song of Songs 4:5

Your two breasts are like two young gazelles that are twins, which feed among the lilies.

Isaiah 18:4

Jehovah says this to me: I will be still and watch from my dwelling place. My presence will be like scorching heat in the sunshine, like heavy dew in the heat of the harvest.

Isaiah 44:3

I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring. I will give blessing to your descendants.

Ezekiel 17:22-24

Someday, I, Jehovah, will cut a tender twig from the top of a cedar tree. I will then plant it on the peak of Israel's tallest mountain, where it will grow strong branches and produce large fruit.

Micah 5:7

Like dew from Jehovah the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples. It will be like showers upon the grass that do not wait for man or for sons of men.

Luke 12:27

Consider the way the lilies grow. They do not toil and neither do they spin. Yet I tell you even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Ephesians 3:17

May Christ dwell in your hearts through faith to the end that you will be rooted and grounded in love.