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Good News Translation

Hosea 14:6

They will be alive with new growth, and beautiful like olive trees. They will be fragrant like the cedars of Lebanon.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Branch;   God Continued...;   Lebanon;   Righteous;   Thompson Chain Reference - Beauties of Nature;   Beauty-Disfigurement;   Trees;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Jews, the;   Lebanon;   Olive-Tree, the;   Saints, Compared to;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Cedar;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Hosea;   Lebanon;   Olive;   Prophecy, prophet;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Branch;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Cedar;   Forest;   Olive-Tree;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Hosea;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Remnant;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Olive;   Salvation, Saviour;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Self-Examination;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Israel ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Cedar tree;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Cedar;   Olive olive-tree;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Olive (tree);   Smell;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Branch and Bough;   Eschatology of the Old Testament (with Apocryphal and Apocalyptic Writings);   Hosea;   Olive Tree;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Dew;   Grace, Divine;   Hafá¹­arah;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for June 18;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
His new branches will spread,and his splendor will be like the olive tree,his fragrance, like the forest of Lebanon.
Hebrew Names Version
His branches will spread, And his beauty will be like the olive tree, And his fragrance like Levanon.
King James Version
His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
English Standard Version
his shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall be like the olive, and his fragrance like Lebanon.
New American Standard Bible
His shoots will sprout, His majesty will be like the olive tree, And his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.
New Century Version
They will be like spreading branches, like the beautiful olive trees and the sweet-smelling cedars in Lebanon.
Amplified Bible
His shoots will sprout, And his beauty will be like the olive tree And his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.
Geneva Bible (1587)
His branches shall spread, and his beautie shalbe as the oliue tree, and his smel as Lebanon.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
His shoots will sprout, And his beauty will be like the olive tree And his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.
Legacy Standard Bible
His shoots will go forth,And his splendor will be like the olive treeAnd his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.
Berean Standard Bible
His shoots will sprout, and his splendor will be like the olive tree, his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.
Contemporary English Version
Your branches will spread with the beauty of an olive tree and with the aroma of Lebanon Forest.
Complete Jewish Bible
I will be like dew to Isra'el; he will blossom like a lily and strike roots like the L'vanon.
Darby Translation
His shoots shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
Easy-to-Read Version
His branches will grow, and he will be like a beautiful olive tree. He will be like the sweet smell from the cedar trees of Lebanon.
George Lamsa Translation
His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like that of Lebanon.
Lexham English Bible
His new plant shoots will spread out; his splendor will be like the olive tree, and his scent like the trees of Lebanon.
Literal Translation
His branches shall go out, and his beauty shall be like the olive tree, and his scent as Lebanon to him.
American Standard Version
His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
Bible in Basic English
His branches will be stretched out, he will be beautiful as the olive-tree and sweet-smelling as Lebanon.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
King James Version (1611)
His branches shall spread, and his beautie shalbe as the oliue tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
His braunches shal spreade out abrode, and be as faire as the oliue tree, & smell as Libanus.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I will be as dew to Israel: he shall bloom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Libanus.
English Revised Version
His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
World English Bible
His branches will spread, And his beauty will be like the olive tree, And his fragrance like Lebanon.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
the braunchis therof schulen go. And the glorye therof schal be as an olyue tree, and the odour therof schal be as of the Liban.
Update Bible Version
His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
Webster's Bible Translation
His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
New English Translation
His young shoots will grow; his splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.
New King James Version
His branches shall spread; His beauty shall be like an olive tree, And his fragrance like Lebanon.
New Living Translation
Its branches will spread out like beautiful olive trees, as fragrant as the cedars of Lebanon.
New Life Bible
His young branches will spread out and his beauty will be like the olive tree. His smell will be like the cedars of Lebanon.
New Revised Standard
His shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like that of Lebanon.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
His branches, shall spread, that, like an olive-tree, may be his fresh beauty, - and his fragrance, like Lebanon.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(14-7) His branches shall spread, and his glory shall be as the olive tree: and his smell as that of Libanus.
Revised Standard Version
his shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall be like the olive, and his fragrance like Lebanon.
Young's Literal Translation
Go on do his sucklings, And his beauty is as an olive, And he hath fragrance as Lebanon.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
His braunches shulde sprede out abrode, & be as fayre as the olyue tre, & smel as Libanus.

Contextual Overview

4 The Lord says, "I will bring my people back to me. I will love them with all my heart; no longer am I angry with them. 5 I will be to the people of Israel like rain in a dry land. They will blossom like flowers; they will be firmly rooted like the trees of Lebanon. 6 They will be alive with new growth, and beautiful like olive trees. They will be fragrant like the cedars of Lebanon. 7 Once again they will live under my protection. They will grow crops of grain and be fruitful like a vineyard. They will be as famous as the wine of Lebanon.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

branches: Psalms 80:9-11, Ezekiel 17:5-8, Ezekiel 31:3-10, Daniel 4:10-15, Matthew 13:31, John 15:1, Romans 11:16-24

spread: Heb. go

and his beauty: Psalms 52:8, Psalms 128:3

his smell: Genesis 27:27, Song of Solomon 4:11-15, 2 Corinthians 2:14, 2 Corinthians 2:15, Philippians 4:18

Reciprocal: Psalms 91:1 - dwelleth Psalms 92:12 - righteous Song of Solomon 2:13 - fig tree Isaiah 27:6 - General Isaiah 35:1 - desert Isaiah 35:2 - the glory Isaiah 60:13 - The glory

Cross-References

Genesis 14:20
May the Most High God, who gave you victory over your enemies, be praised!" And Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of all the loot he had recovered.
Genesis 16:7
The angel of the Lord met Hagar at a spring in the desert on the road to Shur
Genesis 21:21
His mother got an Egyptian wife for him.
Genesis 36:8
So Esau lived in the hill country of Edom.
Numbers 10:12
and the Israelites started on their journey out of the Sinai Desert. The cloud came to rest in the wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 12:16
Then they left Hazeroth and set up camp in the wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 13:3
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Deuteronomy 2:12
The Horites used to live in Edom, but the descendants of Esau chased them out, destroyed their nation, and settled there themselves, just as the Israelites later chased their enemies out of the land that the Lord gave them.)
Habakkuk 3:3
God is coming again from Edom; the holy God is coming from the hills of Paran. His splendor covers the heavens, and the earth is full of his praise.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

His branches shall spread,.... As the well rooted cedars in Lebanon; see Numbers 24:6. This respects the propagation of the church of God, and the interest of Christ in the world, as in the first times of the Gospel, and will be in the latter day; when the Gospel shall be spread everywhere; churches set up in all places; the Jews converted, and the fulness of the Gentiles brought in; and these like spreading branches, and fruitful boughs, abounding in grace and good works. The Targum is,

"they shall multiply or increase with sons and daughters:''

and his beauty shall be as the olive tree; which lies in its being laden with excellent fruit, and being always green; for which reasons particular believers, and the whole church of God, are sometimes compared to it; having that fatness in them, with which God and men are honoured; and that true grace, which is signified by oil in the vessels of the heart, and is called the unction and anointing of the Holy One; and they persevering in this grace to the end, which is evergreen and durable, immortal, and dies not; see Psalms 52:8. Here again it may be observed, that the trees of Lebanon, though they had strong roots, and spreading branches, yet were not fruitful; and the deficiency of that metaphor is supplied by this of the olive:

and his smell as Lebanon; as the trees of Lebanon, the cedars, trees of frankincense, and other odoriferous trees and plants, which grew upon it; here what is wanting in the olive tree, whose smell is not so grateful, is made up by this simile of the trees of Lebanon, and the smell of them; which may denote the sweet and grateful smell the Lord smells in his people, or his gracious acceptance of them in Christ; whose garments of righteousness and salvation on them are as the smell of Lebanon; and whose graces in them exceed the smell of all spices; and whose prayers are odours, and their praises a sacrifice of a sweet smelling savour to God; see Song of Solomon 4:10. Some render it, "as incense" d called "lebonah" in Hebrew, from whence the mountain is thought to have its name, frankincense growing upon it. So the Targum,

"and their smell as the smell of the incense of spices.''

Jarchi says, as the sanctuary, which was made of the cedars of Lebanon.

d "Ut thuris", Grotius.


 
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