Hosea 14:8

O Ephraim, I do not want to have anything to do ¹  with idols anymore! I will answer him and care for him. I am like ²  a luxuriant cypress tree; ³  your fruitfulness comes from me! ⁴ 

Job 33:27; Job 34:32; Isa 41:19; Isa 55:13; Isa 60:13; Jer 31:18-20; Ho 14:2,3; Lu 15:20; Joh 1:16; Joh 1:47,48; Joh 15:1-8; Ac 19:18-20; Ga 5:22,23; Eph 5:9; Php 1:11; Php 2:13; Php 4:13; 1Th 1:9; Jas 1:17; 1Pe 1:14-16; 1Pe 4:3,4

¹ tn The Hebrew expression מַה־לִּי עוֹד (mah-li ’od) is a formula of repudiation/emphatic denial that God has anything in common with idols: “I want to have nothing to do with […] any more!” Cf., e.g., Judg 11:12; 2 Sam 16:10; 19:23; 1 Kgs 17:18; 2 Kgs 3:13; 2 Chr 35:21; Jer 2:18; Ps 50:16; BDB 553 s.v. מָה 1.d.(c).

² tn The term “like” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarity, as in the majority of English versions (including KJV).

³ tn Cf. KJV “a green fir tree”; NIV, NCV “a green pine tree”; NRSV “an evergreen cypress.”

⁴ tn Heb “your fruit is found in me”; NRSV “your faithfulness comes from me.”