Parallel Verses

Webster

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

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.

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:

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

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Fausets

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Morish

Smith

Watsons

Images Hosea 14:5

Prayers for Hosea 14:5

Context Readings

A Promise Of Restoration

4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for my anger is turned away from him. 5 I will be as the dew to 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.

Cross References

Isaiah 35:2

It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice, even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellence of our God.

Job 29:19

My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

Proverbs 19:12

The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favor is as dew upon the grass.

Isaiah 26:19

Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

Isaiah 27:6

He shall cause them that descend from Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

Matthew 6:28

And why are ye anxious for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow? they toil not, neither do they spin?

Deuteronomy 32:2

My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distill as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

2 Samuel 23:4

And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.

2 Kings 19:30

And the remnant that hath escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

Psalm 72:6

He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

Psalm 72:16

There shall be a handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit of it shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

Song of Songs 2:1-2

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

Song of Songs 2:16

My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.

Song of Songs 4:5

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

Isaiah 18:4

For so the LORD said to me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling-place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

Isaiah 44:3

For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thy offspring:

Ezekiel 17:22-24

Thus saith the Lord GOD, I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of its young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon a high mountain and eminent:

Micah 5:7

And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.

Luke 12:27

Consider the lilies how they grow: They toil not, they spin not; and yet I say to you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like 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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