King James Version (KJV)
Hosea 14:5
“I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.”
Verse in context — Hosea 14
3
Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, [Ye are] our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
4
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
5
I will be as the dew unto 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.
7
They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive [as] the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof [shall be] as the wine of Lebanon.
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God’s steadfast love for His unfaithful people, symbolized through Hosea’s marriage.
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