Zechariah 9:17

For what is his goodness and what is his beauty, other than grain among the elect and wine springing forth virgins?

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In The King James Version

For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.

In Context

16And in that day, the Lord their God will save them as the flock of his people. For holy stones will be lifted up over his land.

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Cross References

Exodus 15:11Who is like you in strength, O Lord? Who is like you: magnificent in sanctity, terrible and yet praiseworthy, accomplishing miracles?

Psalms 36:7Be subject to the Lord and pray to him. Do not choose to compete with him who prospers in his way, with the man who does injustice.

Psalms 50:2when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he went to Bathsheba.

Psalms 144:12so as to make known to the sons of men your power and the glory of your magnificent kingdom.

Song of Solomon 5:10I bind you by oath, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, announce to him that I languish through love.

Matthew Henry on Zechariah 9:13-17

Gospel Invitations; Promises of God's Favour to Israel. ( b. c. 510.) 12 Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee; 13 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man. 14 And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the… Read the whole commentary →

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