Hosea 14:6 {7}
Good News Translation
They will be alive with new growth, and beautiful like olive trees. They will be fragrant like the cedars of Lebanon.

New Revised Standard Version
His shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like that of Lebanon.

Contemporary English Version
Your branches will spread with the beauty of an olive tree and with the aroma of Lebanon Forest.

New American Bible
and his shoots will go forth. His splendor will be like the olive tree and his fragrance like Lebanon cedar.

Douay-Rheims Bible
His branches shall spread, and his glory shall be as the olive tree: and his smell as that of Libanus.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

His branches shall spread, and his glory shall be as the olive tree: and his smell as that of Libanus.

branches.

Psalm 80:9-11 Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it filled the land. . . .

Ezekiel 17:5-8 And he took of the seed of the land, and put it in the ground for seed, that it might take a firm root over many waters: he planted it on the surface of the earth. . . .

Ezekiel 31:3-10 Behold, the Assyrian like a cedar in Libanus, with fair branches, and full of leaves, of a high stature, and his top was elevated among the thick boughs. . . .

Daniel 4:10-15 I saw in the vision of my head upon my bed, and behold a watcher, and a holy one came down from heaven. . . .

Matthew 13:31 Another parable he proposed unto them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field.

John 15:1 I am the true vine: and my Father is the husbandman.

Romans 11:16-24 For if the firstfruit be holy, so is the lump also: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. . . .

spread.

Psalm 52:8 But I, as a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped in the mercy of God for ever, yea for ever and ever.

Psalm 128:3 Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table.

his smell.

Genesis 27:27 He came near, and kissed him. And immediately as he smelled the fragrant smell of his garments, blessing him, he said: Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a plentiful field, which the Lord hath blessed.

Songs 4:11-15 Thy lips, my spouse, are as a dropping honeycomb, honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments, as the smell of frankincense. . . .

2 Corinthians 2:14,15 Now thanks be to God, who always maketh us to triumph in Christ Jesus and manifesteth the odour of his knowledge by us in every place. . . .

Philippians 4:18 But I have all and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things you sent, an odour of sweetness, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.

Context
A Promise of God's Blessing
5I will be as the dew, Israel shall spring as the lily, and his root shall shoot forth as that of Libanus. 6His branches shall spread, and his glory shall be as the olive tree: and his smell as that of Libanus.7They shall be converted that sit under his shadow: they shall live upon wheat, and they shall blossom as a vine: his memorial shall be as the wine of Libanus.…
Cross References
Psalm 92:12
The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus.

Songs 4:11
Thy lips, my spouse, are as a dropping honeycomb, honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments, as the smell of frankincense.

Isaiah 27:6
When they shall rush in unto Jacob, Israel shall blossom and bud, and they shall fill the face of the world with seed.

Jeremiah 11:16
The Lord called thy name, a plentiful olive tree, fair, fruitful, and beautiful: at the noise of a word, a great fire was kindled in it, and the branches thereof are burnt.

Hosea 14:5
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