Amos 9:13

There will be a time when your crops will grow very well. Very soon after the crops are harvested, farmers will plow the ground to plant more crops in it again, and soon after the vineyards are planted, farmers will harvest grapes and tread on them to make wine. And because there will be a lot of wine, it will seem as though wine is flowing down from the hills [DOU].

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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, and all the hills shall melt.

In Context

12When that happens, your armies will seize/capture the remaining part of Edom region again, and they will also seize the land in other nations that previously belonged to me [MTY]. I, Yahweh, have said that I will do these things, and I will certainly cause them to happen.

14I will cause you, my Israeli people, to prosper again. You will rebuild your towns and live in them. You will plant vineyards and then drink the wine made from the grapes that grows in them.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:5You will continue harvesting and threshing grain until it is time to harvest grapes, and you will continue to harvest grapes until it is time to start planting things in the following year. And you will have all the food that you want to eat, and you will live safely in your land.

Psalms 97:5The mountains/hills melt like wax in front of Yahweh, the one who is the Lord, who rules over all the earth.

Isaiah 55:13Instead of thornbushes and briers, pine/cypress trees and myrtle trees will grow in your land. As a result of that, people will honor me much more; and what I do will remind everyone that I do what I have promised.”

Hosea 2:21At that time, when they request me to do things for them, I will do those things. When they request clouds and rain to fall on their land, I will speak to the clouds, and rain will fall on the earth,

Joel 3:20but there will always be people living in Jerusalem and in other places in Judea.

John 4:35At this time of the year you are saying (OR, your ancestors used to say), ‘There are four months left before we harvest the crops.’ But I say to you, look carefully at the non-Jewish people around here. God says, ‘They are ready to accept my message [MET], like crops in fields that are ready for people to 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 →

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