Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

New American Standard Bible

For what comeliness and beauty will be theirs!
Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

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.

Holman Bible

How lovely and beautiful they will be!
Grain will make the young men flourish,
and new wine, the young women.

International Standard Version

For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men thrive, and new wine the virgins.

American Standard Version

For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

Amplified


For how great is God’s goodness and how great is His beauty! And how great [He will make Israel’s] goodliness and [Israel’s] beauty!
Grain and new wine will make the young men and virgins flourish.

Bible in Basic English

For how good it is and how beautiful! grain will make the young men strong and new wine the virgins.

Darby Translation

For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Corn shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the maidens.

Julia Smith Translation

For what his good, and what his beauty! Grain shall cause the young men to increase, and new wine the virgins.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

For how [great is] his goodness, and how [great is] his beauty! Grain will make the young men thrive, and new wine [the] young women.

Modern King James verseion

For how great is its goodness and how great its beauty! Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

O how prosperous and goodly a thing shall that be: The corn shall make the young men cheerful, and the new wine the maidens.

NET Bible

How precious and fair! Grain will make the young men flourish and new wine the young women.

New Heart English Bible

For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty. Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

The Emphasized Bible

For how excellent it is! Yea how beautiful! Corn, shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the maidens.

Webster

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

World English Bible

For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

Youngs Literal Translation

For what His goodness! and what His beauty! Corn the young men, And new wine the virgins -- make fruitful!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
טוּב 
Tuwb 
Usage: 32

and how great is his beauty
יפי 
Yophiy 
Usage: 19

דּגן 
Dagan 
Usage: 40

בּחר בּחוּר 
Bachuwr 
Usage: 46

נוּב 
Nuwb 
Usage: 4

and new wine
תּירשׁ תּירושׁ 
Tiyrowsh 
Usage: 38

References

Context Readings

The Coming Of Zion's King

16 And LORD their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people, [as] for the stones of a crown, lifted on high over his land. 17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

Cross References

Isaiah 33:17

Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty. They shall behold a land that reaches afar.

Isaiah 62:8-9

LORD has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy grain to be food for thine enemies, and foreigners shall not drink thy new wine, for which thou have labored.

Exodus 15:11

Who is like thee, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

Psalm 31:19

O how great is thy goodness, which thou have laid up for those who fear thee, which thou have wrought for those who take refuge in thee before the sons of men!

Psalm 36:7

How precious is thy loving kindness, O God, and the sons of men take refuge under the shadow of thy wings.

Psalm 45:2

Thou are fairer than the sons of men. Grace is poured into thy lips. Therefore God has blessed thee forever.

Psalm 50:2

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone forth.

Psalm 86:5

For thou, LORD, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in loving kindness to all those who call upon thee.

Psalm 86:15

But thou, O LORD, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

Psalm 90:17

And let the favor of LORD our God be upon us. And establish thou the work of our hands upon us, yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

Psalm 145:7

They shall utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.

Song of Songs 7:9

and thy mouth like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips and teeth.

Isaiah 63:7

I will make mention of the loving kindnesses of LORD, [and] the praises of LORD, according to all that LORD has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has bestowed on them according to his merci

Isaiah 63:15

Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory. Where are thy zeal and thy mighty acts? The yearning of thy heart and thy compassions are restrained toward me.

Isaiah 65:13-14

Therefore thus says lord LORD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry. Behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty. Behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be put to shame.

Jeremiah 31:12

And they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of LORD, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd. And their soul shall be as a watered gard

Hosea 2:21-22

And it shall come to pass in that day, I will answer, says LORD. I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth,

Joel 2:26

And ye shall eat in plenty and be satisfied. And shall praise the name of LORD your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall never be put to shame.

Joel 3:18

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the brooks of Judah shall flow with waters. And a fountain shall come forth from the house of LORD, a

Amos 8:11-14

Behold, the days come, says lord LORD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of LORD.

Amos 9:13-14

Behold, the days come, says LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him who sows seed, and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.

John 1:14

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, so that every man who believes in him would not perish, but have eternal life.

Romans 5:8

But God commends his love toward us, that, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:20

And the law entered so that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace was more abundant,

2 Corinthians 4:4-6

in whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, in order for the light of the good-news of the glory of the Christ (who is a likeness of God) not to shine forth to them.

Ephesians 1:7-8

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of transgressions, according to the wealth of his grace,

Ephesians 2:4-5

But God, being rich in mercy, through his great love that he loved us,

Ephesians 3:18-19

having been rooted and grounded in love, so that ye may be able to grasp with all the sanctified what is the breadth and length and depth and height,

Ephesians 5:18-19

And do not become intoxicated with wine, during which is debauchery, but be filled in Spirit,

Titus 3:4-7

But when the kindness and philanthropy of God our Savior appeared,

1 John 4:8-11

He who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Revelation 5:12-14

saying with a great voice, Worthy is the Lamb that has been killed to receive the power, and wealth, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing!

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