Hosea 14:5

God promises to be like refreshing dew so Israel will blossom and take deep, strong roots. It pictures the flourishing life that comes from God's renewing grace.

Cross-references · 20

• Isa 35:2It will bloom profusely and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the LORD, the splendor of our God.
• Isa 27:6In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.
• Eph 3:17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love,
• Matt 6:28And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not labor or spin.
• Isa 44:3For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.
• Job 29:19My roots will spread out to the waters, and the dew will rest nightly on my branches.
• Isa 26:19Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
• Mic 5:7Then the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for man or linger for mankind.
• Deut 32:2Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.
• 2 Sam 23:4is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’
• 2 Kgs 19:30And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.
• Ezek 17:22–24This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take a shoot from the lofty top of the cedar, and I will set it out. I will pluck a tender sprig from its topmost shoots, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.
• Ps 72:6May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.
• Prov 19:12A king’s rage is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
• Ps 72:16May there be an abundance of grain in the land; may it sway atop the hills. May its fruit trees flourish like the forests of Lebanon, and its people like the grass of the field.
• Song 4:5Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.
• Luke 12:27Consider how the lilies grow: They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these.
• Isa 18:4For this is what the LORD has told me: “I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
• Song 2:1–2I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valley.
• Song 2:16My beloved is mine and I am his; he pastures his flock among the lilies.

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