Zechariah 9:17

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

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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 shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an explicit sign upon his land.

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Cross References

Exodus 15:11Who is like unto you, O LORD, among the gods? who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

Psalms 36:7How excellent is your loving kindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of your wings.

Psalms 50:2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined.

Psalms 86:15But you, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, long suffering, and abundant in mercy and truth.

Psalms 144:12That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the embodiment of a palace:

Song of Solomon 5:10My beloved is white and rosy, the chiefest among ten thousand.

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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