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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• ¹⁹How great [is] thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for those who fear thee,{HR}Thou hast wrought for those who trust in thee before the sons of men. (Psa. 31:19)

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Psa. 36:7• ⁷How precious [is] thy mercy, O God!{HR}And the sons of men shall trust in the shadow of thy wings. (Psa. 36:7)

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Psa. 86:5,15• ⁵For thou, Lord, [art] good and forgiving,{HR}And great in mercy to all that call on thee.
¹⁵And thou, Lord, [art] a God (El) merciful and gracious,{HR}Slow of rage and great in mercy and truth. (Psa. 86:5,15)

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Psa. 145:7• ⁷They shall pour forth the memory of thy great goodness,{HR}And thy righteousness they shall sing aloud. (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 on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on 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 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 every one that believeth on him should not perish but have life eternal. (John 3:16)

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Rom. 5:8,20• ⁸but God commendeth his own love towards us, because, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
²⁰But law came in by the way, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded, grace over-abounded (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 caused to abound toward us in all wisdom and intelligence, (Eph. 1:7‑8)

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

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Eph. 3:18‑19• ¹⁸being in love rooted and grounded that ye may be fully able to comprehend with all the saints what [is] the breadth and length and depth and height;
¹⁹and to know the love of the Christ that surpasseth knowledge, that ye may be filled to all the fullness of God. (Eph. 3:18‑19)

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

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1 John 4:8‑11• ⁸He that loveth not knew not God, because God is love.
⁹Herein was manifested the love of God in us, that God hath 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 [as] propitiation for our sins.
¹¹Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. (1 John 4:8‑11)

how great is his beauty.

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

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Psa. 45:2• ²Thou hast been very fair above the sons of men;{HR}Grace hath been poured into thy lips;{HR}Therefore God hath blessed thee forever. (Psa. 45:2)

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

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Psa. 90:17• ¹⁷And let the beauty of Jehovah our God be upon us,{HR}And the work of our hands establish thou upon us;{HR}Even 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,{HR}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 a far stretching land. (Isa. 33:17)

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John 1:14• ¹⁴And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only-begotten from beside 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 age blinded the minds of the faithless, that the illumination of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is [the] image of God, should not shine forth.
⁵For not ourselves do we preach, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves your bondmen for Jesus' sake,
⁶because it is the God that bade light shine out of darkness, who shone in our hearts for the illumination 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 is slain to receive the power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.
¹³And every creature which is in the heaven and on the earth and under the earth and [such as are] on the sea and all things in them heard I saying, To him that sitteth on the throne and to the Lamb {i}be{/i} the blessing and the honour and the glory and the might unto the ages of the ages.
¹⁴And the four living creatures said, Amen: and the elders fell down and worshipped. (Rev. 5:12‑14)

corn.

Isa. 62:8‑9• ⁸Jehovah hath sworn by His right hand, and by the arm of His strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn [to be] meat for thine enemies; and sons of the alien shall not drink thy wine, for which thou hast laboured;
⁹for they that have garnered it shall eat it, and praise Jehovah; and they that have gathered it together 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, but ye shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed;
¹⁴behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry 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 wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel. (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, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. (Joel 2:26)

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

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Amos 8:11‑14• ¹¹{i}Behold, 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.{/i}
¹²{i}And 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.{/i}
¹³{i}In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst;{/i}
¹⁴{i}they 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.{/i} (Amos 8:11‑14)

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Amos 9:13‑14• ¹³Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, 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.
¹⁴And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also 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 dissoluteness, but be filled with [the] Spirit,
¹⁹speaking to each other in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and chanting in your heart to the Lord; (Eph. 5:18‑19)

cheerful.

or, grow, or, speak.

Song of Sol. 7:9• ⁹And the roof of thy mouth as the best wine{HR}Goeth down aright for my beloved,{HR}Gliding over the lips of those 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.

W. Kelly 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.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)