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Zech. 9:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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how great is his goodness.

Psa. 31:19• ¹⁹Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee, which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee, before the sons of men! (Psa. 31:19)

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Psa. 36:7• ⁷How precious is thy loving-kindness, O God! So the sons of men take refuge under the shadow of thy wings. (Psa. 36:7)

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Psa. 86:5,15• ⁵For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, and art of great loving-kindness unto all that call upon thee.
¹⁵But thou, Lord, art a *God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth. (Psa. 86:5,15)

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Psa. 145:7• ⁷They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. (Psa. 145:7)

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Isa. 63:7,15• ⁷I will record the loving-kindnesses of Jehovah, the praises of Jehovah, according to all that Jehovah hath bestowed upon us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel which he hath bestowed upon them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses.
¹⁵Look down from the heavens, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory! Where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy tender mercies? Are they restrained toward me? (Isa. 63:7,15)

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John 3:16• ¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him may not perish, but have life eternal. (John 3:16)

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Rom. 5:8,20• ⁸but God commends *his* love to us, in that, we being still sinners, Christ has died for us.
²⁰But law came in, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded grace has overabounded, (Rom. 5:8,20)

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Eph. 1:7‑8• ⁷in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of offences, according to the riches of his grace;
⁸which he has caused to abound towards us in all wisdom and intelligence, (Eph. 1:7‑8)

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Eph. 2:4‑5• ⁴but God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love wherewith he loved us,
⁵(we too being dead in offences,) has quickened us with the Christ, (ye are saved by grace,) (Eph. 2:4‑5)

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Eph. 3:18‑19• ¹⁸in order that ye may be fully able to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height;
¹⁹and to know the love of the Christ which surpasses knowledge; that ye may be filled even to all the fulness of God. (Eph. 3:18‑19)

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Titus 3:4‑7• ⁴But when the kindness and love to man of our Saviour God appeared,
⁵not on the principle of works which have been done in righteousness which *we* had done, but according to his own mercy he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
⁶which he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
⁷that, having been justified by *his* grace, we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. (Titus 3:4‑7)

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1 John 4:8‑11• ⁸He that loves not has not known God; for God is love.
⁹Herein as to us has been manifested the love of God, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
¹⁰Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.
¹¹Beloved, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another. (1 John 4:8‑11)

how great is his beauty.

Ex. 15:11• ¹¹Who is like unto thee, Jehovah, among the gods? Who is like unto thee, glorifying thyself in holiness, Fearful in praises, doing wonders? (Ex. 15:11)

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Psa. 45:2• ²Thou art fairer than the sons of men; grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. (Psa. 45:2)

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Psa. 50:2• ²Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth. (Psa. 50:2)

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Psa. 90:17• ¹⁷And let the beauty of Jehovah our God be upon us; and establish thou the work of our hands upon us: yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it. (Psa. 90:17)

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Song of Sol. 5:10• ¹⁰My beloved is white and ruddy, The chiefest among ten thousand. (Song of Sol. 5:10)

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Isa. 33:17• ¹⁷Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty; they shall behold the land that is far off. (Isa. 33:17)

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John 1:14• ¹⁴And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we have contemplated his glory, a glory as of an only-begotten with a father), full of grace and truth; (John 1:14)

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2 Cor. 4:4‑6• ⁴in whom the god of this world has blinded the thoughts of the unbelieving, so that the radiancy of the glad tidings of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine forth for them.
⁵For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus Lord, and ourselves your bondmen for Jesus' sake.
⁶Because it is the God who spoke that out of darkness light should shine who has shone in our hearts for the shining forth of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. (2 Cor. 4:4‑6)

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Rev. 5:12‑14• ¹²saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that has been slain, to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.
¹³And every creature which is in the heaven and upon the earth and under the earth, and those that are upon the sea, and all things in them, heard I saying, To him that sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb, blessing, and honour, and glory, and might, to the ages of ages.
¹⁴And the four living creatures said, Amen; and the elders fell down and did homage. (Rev. 5:12‑14)

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Isa. 62:8‑9• ⁸Jehovah hath sworn by his right hand and by the arm of his strength, I will indeed no more give thy corn to be food for thine enemies; and the sons of the alien shall not drink thy new wine, for which thou hast laboured;
⁹for they that have garnered it shall eat it, and praise Jehovah; and they that have gathered it shall drink it in the courts of my holiness. (Isa. 62:8‑9)

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Isa. 65:13‑14• ¹³Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, my servants shall eat, and *ye* shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, and *ye* shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, and *ye* shall be ashamed;
¹⁴behold, my servants shall sing aloud for gladness of heart, and *ye* shall cry out for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit. (Isa. 65:13‑14)

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Hos. 2:21‑22• ²¹And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith Jehovah, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;
²²and the earth shall hear the corn, and the new wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jizreel. (Hos. 2:21‑22)

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Joel 2:26• ²⁶And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of Jehovah your God, who hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. (Joel 2:26)

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Joel 3:18• ¹⁸And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the water-courses of Judah shall flow with waters; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of Jehovah, and shall water the valley of Shittim. (Joel 3:18)

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Amos 8:11‑14• ¹¹Behold, days come, saith the Lord Jehovah, when I will send a famine in the land; not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Jehovah.
¹²And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah, and shall not find it.
¹³In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst;
¹⁴they that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, As thy god, O Dan, liveth! and, As the way of Beer-sheba liveth! even they shall fall, and never rise up again. (Amos 8:11‑14)

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Amos 9:13‑14• ¹³Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, when the ploughman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop new wine, and all the hills shall melt.
¹⁴And I will turn again the captivity of my people Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; and they shall make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. (Amos 9:13‑14)

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Eph. 5:18‑19• ¹⁸And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit,
¹⁹speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and chanting with your heart to the Lord; (Eph. 5:18‑19)

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or, grow, or, speak.

Song of Sol. 7:9• ⁹And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine, … That goeth down smoothly for my beloved, And stealeth over the lips of them that are asleep. (Song of Sol. 7:9)

• Feasting upon Him as upon the firstfruits, the true corn of the land in which they now dwell, the young men are made cheerful; and the maids, drinking of the new wine of the kingdom, are made glad. It is a picture of the millennial joy of Messiah’s kingdom. (“Zechariah 9” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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