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In days to come Jacob shall take root,
    Israel shall sprout and blossom,
    covering all the world with fruit.(A)

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In days to come Jacob will take root,(A)
    Israel will bud and blossom(B)
    and fill all the world with fruit.(C)

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I will be like the dew for Israel:(A)
    he will blossom like the lily;
He will strike root like the Lebanon cedar,
    and his shoots will go forth.(B)
His splendor will be like the olive tree
    and his fragrance like Lebanon cedar.(C)
Again they will live in his shade;
    they will raise grain,
They will blossom like the vine,
    and his renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.

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    his young shoots will grow.
His splendor will be like an olive tree,(A)
    his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.(B)
People will dwell again in his shade;(C)
    they will flourish like the grain,
they will blossom(D) like the vine—
    Israel’s fame will be like the wine(E) of Lebanon.(F)
Ephraim, what more have I[a] to do with idols?(G)
    I will answer him and care for him.
I am like a flourishing juniper;(H)
    your fruitfulness comes from me.”

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 14:8 Or Hebrew; Septuagint What more has Ephraim

13 Yes, days are coming—
    oracle of the Lord
When the one who plows shall overtake the one who reaps
    and the vintager, the sower of the seed;
The mountains shall drip with the juice of grapes,
    and all the hills shall run with it.(A)

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13 “The days are coming,”(A) declares the Lord,

“when the reaper(B) will be overtaken by the plowman(C)
    and the planter by the one treading(D) grapes.
New wine(E) will drip from the mountains
    and flow from all the hills,(F)

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