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I will be like the dew to Israel;
he will blossom like a lily,
he will send down his roots like a cedar of[a] Lebanon.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 14:5 tn Heb “like Lebanon” (so KJV; also in the following verse). The phrase “a cedar of” does not appear in the Hebrew text; it is supplied in translation for clarity (cf. TEV “the trees of Lebanon,” NRSV “the forests of Lebanon”).