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Tall flourishing cypress beside fruiting orchard, small abandoned handmade idol in dust foreground; tree not shown bearing wrong biological fruit, metaphor of provision, no God face in bark.
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Hosea 14:9

Fruit from the Cypress

I Will Love Them Freely · Hosea 14

Story guide: Prophetic illustration grounded in the verse; national designations and metaphors are not newly narrated events.

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9Ephraim—what have I to do anymore with idols? I have answered him and will look after him. I am like a flourishing cypress; from me your fruit is found.

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