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 blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh’s glory, the excellence of our God.
• Isa 27:6In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.
• Eph 3:17that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
• Matt 6:28Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin,
• Isa 44:3For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:
• Job 29:19My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.
• Isa 26:19Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.
• Mic 5:7The remnant of Jacob will be among many peoples, like dew from Yahweh, like showers on the grass, that don’t wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men.
• Deut 32:2My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.
• 2 Sam 23:4shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’
• 2 Kgs 19:30The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
• Ezek 17:22–24“Thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘I will also take some of the lofty top of the cedar, and will plant it. I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.
• Ps 72:6He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.
• Prov 19:12The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
• Ps 72:16Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.
• Song 4:5Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed among the lilies.
• Luke 12:27Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
• Isa 18:4For Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
• Song 2:1–2I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.
• Song 2:16My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies.

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