Zechariah 9:17

How good and how beautiful will it be! Corn will make the young men flourish and new wine the young women!

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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 the Lord their God will save them on that day, as the flock of his people, as the jewel of a crown shining in his land.

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Cross References

Psalms 36:7How precious your love, O God! All may seek shelter in the shadow of your wings.

Psalms 50:2From Zion, perfection of beauty, God’s glory shines forth.

Psalms 86:15But you are a God of pity and grace, patient and rich in kindness and faithfulness; turn to me with your grace, O Lord.

Psalms 144:12May our sons in their youth be as plants well tended: our daughters like cornices carved as in palaces.

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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