Zechariah 9:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

How great is his goodness

How great is his beauty

Corn

Cheerful

Song of Songs 7:9

General references

Numbers 15:5

Amos 8:13

1 Peter 2:3

Bible References

How great is his goodness

How abundant is Thy goodness, That Thou hast laid up for those fearing Thee,

How precious is Thy kindness, O God, And the sons of men In the shadow of Thy wings do trust.

For Thou, Lord, art good and forgiving. And abundant in kindness to all calling Thee.

The memorial of the abundance of Thy goodness they send forth. And Thy righteousness they sing.

The kind acts of Jehovah I make mention of, The praises of Jehovah, According to all that Jehovah hath done for us, And the abundance of the goodness to the house of Israel, That He hath done for them, According to His mercies, And according to the abundance of His kind acts.

for God did so love the world, that His Son -- the only begotten -- He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of the trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,

and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,

that ye may be in strength to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height,

and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

How great is his beauty

Who is like Thee among the gods, O Jehovah? Who is like Thee -- honourable in holiness -- Fearful in praises -- doing wonders?

Thou hast been beautified above the sons of men, Grace hath been poured into thy lips, Therefore hath God blessed thee to the age.

From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shone.

And let the pleasantness of Jehovah our God be upon us, And the work of our hands establish on us, Yea, the work of our hands establish it!

My beloved is clear and ruddy, Conspicuous above a myriad!

A king in his beauty, see do thine eyes, They see a land afar off.

And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.

in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;

saying with a great voice, 'Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive the power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing!'

Corn

Sworn hath Jehovah by His right hand, Even by the arm of His strength: 'I give not thy corn any more as food for thine enemies, Nor do sons of a stranger drink thy new wine, For which thou hast laboured.

Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, My servants do eat, and ye do hunger, Lo, My servants do drink, and ye do thirst, Lo, My servants rejoice, and ye are ashamed,

And it hath come to pass in that day, I answer -- an affirmation of Jehovah, I answer the heavens, and they answer the earth.

And ye have eaten, eating and being satisfied, And have praised the name of Jehovah your God, Who hath dealt with you wonderfully, And not ashamed are My people to the age.

And it hath come to pass, in that day, Drop down do the mountains juice, And the hills do flow with milk, And all streams of Judah do go with water, And a fountain from the house of Jehovah goeth forth, And hath watered the valley of Shittim.

Lo, days are coming, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And I have sent a famine into the land, Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water But of hearing the words of Jehovah.

Lo, days are coming -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And come nigh hath the ploughman to the reaper, And the treader of grapes to the scatterer of seed, And the mountains have dropped juice, And all the hills do melt.

and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

Cheerful

And thy palate as the good wine -- 'Flowing to my beloved in uprightness, Strengthening the lips of the aged!

General references

and wine for a libation, a fourth of the hin thou dost prepare for the burnt-offering or for a sacrifice, for the one lamb;

In that day faint do the fair virgins, And the young men, with thirst.

if so be ye did taste that the Lord is gracious,