Hosea 14:6

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

His branches, shall spread, that, like an olive-tree, may be his fresh beauty, - and his fragrance, like Lebanon.

Parallel Translations

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.

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.

New English Translation
His young shoots will grow; his splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.

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.

Amplified Bible
His shoots will sprout, And his beauty will be like the olive tree And his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.

English Standard Version
his shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall be like the olive, and his fragrance like 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.

English Revised Version
His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Geneva Bible (1587)
His branches shall spread, and his beautie shalbe as the oliue tree, and his smel as Lebanon.

George Lamsa Translation
His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like that of 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

New King James Version
His branches shall spread; His beauty shall be like an olive tree, And his fragrance like 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.

Contextual Overview

⁴ I will heal their apostacy, I will love them freely, - for mine anger, hath turned, from them. ⁵ I will become as the dew unto Israel, he shall break forth as the lily, - and he shall strike his roots as Lebanon: ⁶ His branches, shall spread, that, like an olive-tree, may be his fresh beauty, - and his fragrance, like Lebanon. ⁷ They who dwell in his shade shall again show life like the corn, and break forth as the vine, - and, the remembrance of him, shall be like 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
And blessed be GOD Most High, who hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. So he gave unto him a tenth of all.

Genesis 16:7
And the messenger of Yahweh b found her by the fountain of water in the desert, - by the fountain in the way to Shur.

Genesis 21:21
And he dwelt in the desert of Paran, - and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

Genesis 36:8
So Esau dwelt in Mount Seir, Esau, is Edom.

Numbers 10:12
and the sons of Israel set forward by their removals from the desert of Sinai, and then the cloud abode in the desert of Paran.

Numbers 12:16
Then afterwards, did the people set forward from Hazeroth, and encamped in the desert of Paran.

Numbers 13:3
So then Moses sent them out of the desert of Paran, at the bidding of Yahweh, - all of them, great men, heads of the seas of Israel, were they.

Deuteronomy 2:12
And in Seir, dwelt the Horim aforetime, but, the sons of Esau, dispossessed them, and destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead, - as did Israel unto the land of his own possession, which Yahweh had given unto them.

Habakkuk 3:3
GOD, from Teman, cometh in, and, the Holy One, from Mount Paran. Selah. His splendour, hath covered the heavens, and, his praise, hath filled the earth:

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.