Amos 9:13
Look! The time is coming, says the Lord, when the reaper will overtake the plowman, and the one who treads the grapes will overtake the one who sows the seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, and flow from all the hills.
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Leviticus 26:5Your time of threshing will last right up to the grape harvest, and the grape harvest until the time you have to sow again. You will have more than enough to eat and you will live in safety in your land.
Psalms 97:5The mountains melt like wax in the presence of the Lord, before the Lord of all the earth.
Isaiah 55:13Cypress trees will grow instead of thorn bushes; myrtle trees will grow instead of brambles. This is to confirm the Lord's reputation—an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed.
Hosea 2:21On that day, declares the Lord, I will answer the heavens and they will answer the earth.
Joel 3:20Judah will be lived in forever, and Jerusalem for all generations.
John 4:35Don't you have a saying, ‘four more months until harvest?’ Open your eyes and look around! The crops in the fields are ripe, ready for harvest.
Matthew Henry on Amos 9:12-15
Promises of Mercy. ( b. c. 784.) 11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old: 12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the Lord that doeth this. 13 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord , that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine,… Read the whole commentary →