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15 Bible Verses About Blooming

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  • Isaiah 35:1-2, Isaiah 27:6 and Hosea 14:5-6 promise, in the future tense, that the desert and Israel “shall blossom.”
  • Aaron’s staff budded, blossomed and bore ripe almonds by the next day, and was kept before the testimony as a sign for the rebels (Numbers 17:8-10).
  • Psalm 1:3 and Jeremiah 17:7-8 both picture the person who trusts God as a tree planted by water; Jeremiah adds the year of drought.
  • Isaiah 40:8, quoted in 1 Peter 1:24-25, sets the fading flower against the word of God that stands forever.
  • Habakkuk 3:17-18 resolves to rejoice in the Lord even “though the fig tree should not blossom.”

The Bible uses blooming for two things: what God makes grow, and how quickly a human life passes. Isaiah 35:1-2 and Hosea 14:5-6 promise that the desert and Israel will blossom, and Isaiah 40:8 answers the fading flower with the word of God that “will stand forever.” Aaron’s staff buds and flowers by the next day as a sign (Numbers 17:8), and several passages picture a person as a tree that stays green: planted by streams of water (Psalm 1:3),…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

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