the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Zechariah 9:17
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Everything will be good and beautiful! There will be a wonderful crop, but it will not be just the food and wine. It will be all the young men and women!
For how great will their loveliness and beauty be! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine, the virgins.
They will be so pretty and beautiful. The young men will grow strong on the grain and the young women on new wine.
For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.
For how great [is] his goodness, and how great [is] his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.
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.
For how great is his goodness, and how great his beauty! Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the young women.
For how great is his goodness, And how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, And new wine the virgins.
For what is the good of hym, and what is the faire of hym, no but whete of chosun men, and wyn buriownynge virgyns?
For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the maids.
How lovely they will be, and how beautiful! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine, the young women.
How lovely they will be. Young people will grow there like grain in a field or grapes in a vineyard.
For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.
For how good it is and how beautiful! grain will make the young men strong and new wine the virgins.
What wealth is theirs, what beauty! Grain will make the young men thrive, and new wine the young women.
For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Corn shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the maidens.
For how great is their goodness, and how great is their beauty! Corn shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the maids.
For how great is his goodnesse, and how great is his beautie? corne shal make the yong men cheerefull, and new wine the maides.
How wonderful and beautiful they will be! The young men will thrive on abundant grain, and the young women will flourish on new wine.
How good and how beautiful they will be! Grain will make the young men grow strong. And the young, pure women will grow strong with new wine.
For what goodness and beauty are his! Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the young women.
For howe great is his goodnesse! and howe great is his beautie! corne shall make the yong men cherefull, and newe wine the maides.
How good and how excellent is wheat for the young men, and wine makes the maids cheerful.
For how excellent it is! Yea how beautiful! Corn, shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the maidens.
For what is the good thing of him, and what is his beautiful thing, but the corn of the elect, and wine springing forth virgins?
Yea, how good and how fair it shall be! Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the maidens.
O how prosperous and goodly a thing shall that be? For the corne shall make the young men cheareful, and the newe wine the maydens.
For if he has anything good, and if he has anything fair, the young men shall have corn, and there shall be fragrant wine to the virgins.
How good and beautiful the land will be! The young people will grow strong on its grain and wine.
How lovely and beautiful!Grain will make the young men flourish,and new wine, the young women.
For how great is his goodness, And how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, And new wine the virgins.
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.
For how great is its goodness, and how great its beauty! Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.
For what His goodness! and what His beauty! Corn the young men, And new wine the virgins -- make fruitful!
O how prosperous and goodly a thynge shall that be? The corne shall make the yongemen chearefull, and the new wyne the maydens.
How precious and fair! Grain will make the young men flourish and new wine the young women.
17 For how great is its [fn] goodnessAnd how great its [fn] beauty!Grain shall make the young men thrive,And new wine the young women.
For what comeliness and beauty will be theirs! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.
For what goodness and what beauty will be theirs!Grain will make the choice men flourish, and new wine the virgins.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
how great is his goodness: Psalms 31:19, Psalms 36:7, Psalms 86:5, Psalms 86:15, Psalms 145:7, Isaiah 63:7, Isaiah 63:15, John 3:16, Romans 5:8, Romans 5:20, Ephesians 1:7, Ephesians 1:8, Ephesians 2:4, Ephesians 2:5, Ephesians 3:18, Ephesians 3:19, Titus 3:4-7, 1 John 4:8-11
how great is his beauty: Exodus 15:11, Psalms 45:2, Psalms 50:2, Psalms 90:17, Song of Solomon 5:10, Isaiah 33:17, John 1:14, 2 Corinthians 4:4-6, Revelation 5:12-14
corn: Isaiah 62:8, Isaiah 62:9, Isaiah 65:13, Isaiah 65:14, Hosea 2:21, Hosea 2:22, Joel 2:26, Joel 3:18, Amos 8:11-14, Amos 9:13, Amos 9:14, Ephesians 5:18, Ephesians 5:19
cheerful: or, grow, or, speak, Song of Solomon 7:9
Reciprocal: Genesis 27:28 - plenty Exodus 33:19 - all my goodness Numbers 6:20 - and after Numbers 15:5 - General Deuteronomy 26:11 - rejoice 1 Kings 8:66 - joyful 1 Kings 10:7 - I believed 2 Chronicles 6:41 - thy saints 2 Chronicles 9:6 - the one half Psalms 25:13 - dwell at ease Psalms 34:8 - Lord Psalms 36:8 - abundantly Psalms 65:13 - pastures Psalms 90:14 - satisfy Psalms 148:12 - young men Psalms 148:13 - for his name Song of Solomon 1:16 - thou art Song of Solomon 5:15 - as Lebanon Isaiah 4:2 - beautiful and glorious Isaiah 9:17 - have no joy Isaiah 25:6 - make Jeremiah 33:11 - the voice of them Amos 8:13 - General Zechariah 9:15 - shall drink Zechariah 10:7 - and their Matthew 17:4 - it is Matthew 26:29 - until Mark 14:25 - new Luke 22:18 - the fruit Acts 2:13 - These 1 Peter 2:3 - General 1 John 2:13 - young
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For how great [is] his goodness?.... Not of the land of Judea, as Kimchi; nor of the doctrine of the law, as the Targum; nor of the people of the Jews; but of the Messiah: and designs not his essential nor his providential goodness; but his goodness as Mediator, which he has in his heart, and has shown unto his people, in being their surety, and becoming their Saviour; in assuming their nature; bearing their sins, and obeying and suffering in their room and stead: and also that which he has in his hands for them, and communicates to them; his fulness of grace; all those spiritual blessings that are in him; the large measures of grace given at conversion; and the numerous instances of his goodness afterwards; yea, it includes glory, as well as grace:
and how great [is] his beauty? not as God, nor as man, but as Mediator; as beheld in the covenant and promises; in the Gospel and in the truths and in the ordinances of it:
corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids; by "young men" are meant the same as in 1 John 2:14 believers in Christ, who are lively, warm, and zealous for Christ, his cause and interest; who are active, diligent, and industrious in the discharge of duty; and are strong in Christ, and in his grace; and particularly in the grace of faith, and quit themselves like men: and by "maids" or "virgins" are meant the same; so called because of their chaste adherence to Christ; for their beauty, comeliness, and attire; and for their purity of divine worship and conversation: and the Gospel is intended by "corn" and "new wine"; which is compared to "corn", in opposition to the chaff of human doctrines; and because it contains Christ the bread of life, and is nourishing and comfortable: and to "new wine", not because it is a novel doctrine, for it is the everlasting Gospel ordained before the world was; but because, under the Gospel dispensation, to which this prophecy refers, it is newly and more clearly revealed; 1 John 2:14- :. The effect of which is, that it makes saints "cheerful", fills them with joy and spiritual mirth; for it is a joyful sound: or, "shall make fruitful" d; it causes them to grow and increase, and makes them fruitful in every good word and work: or, "shall make them speak" eloquently e; or cause them to put forth the fruit of their lips, in giving thanks to God for the abundance of grace bestowed upon them: or, "shall" make "them sing" f, as others; in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. This new wine may be interpreted of the gifts and graces bestowed in great plenty on the day of Pentecost, both on sons and daughters, on servants and handmaids, whereby they prophesied, and saw visions, Acts 2:16 see Ephesians 5:18.
d ינובב "germinare faciet", Montanus; "progerminare faciet", Burkius; "foecundabit", Castalio; "dicitur de virginibus spiritualibus, quae sunt fructus multi evangelii", Zech. ix. 17. Stockius, p. 654. e "Facundas faciet", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Tarnovius. f "Cantare faciet", Pagninus, Drusius so Ben Melech.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For how great is His goodness - For it is unutterable! As the Psalmist said, “O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Thy Name in all the earth!” Psalms 8:1, and Jacob, “How awful is this place!” Genesis 28:17, and the Psalmist, “How awful are Thy doings!” The goodness and the beauty are the goodness and beauty of God, whose great doings had been his theme throughout before. Of the goodness the sacred writers often speak , since of this we have extremest need. And this He showed to Moses, “I will cause all My goodness to pass before thy face” Exodus 33:19. Of this we know somewhat personally in this life; for beside the surpassing. amazingness of it in the work of our redemption, we are surrounded by it, immersed in it, as in a fathomless, shoreless ocean of infinite love, which finds entrance into our souls, whenever we bar it not out.
Goodness is that attribute of God, whereby He loveth to communicate to all, who can or will receive it, all good; yea, Himself , “who is the fullness and universality of good, Creator of all good, not in one way, not in one kind of goodness only, but absolutely, without beginning, without limit, without measure, save that whereby without measurement He possesseth and embraceth all excellence, all perfection, all blessedness, all good.” This Good His Goodness bestoweth on all and each, according to the capacity of each to receive it, nor is there any limit to His giving, save His creature’s capacity of receiving, which also is a good gift from Him. “From Him all things sweet derive their sweetness; all things fair, their beauty; all things bright, their splendor; all things that live, their life; all things sentient, their sense; all that move, their vigor; all intelligences, their knowledge; all things perfect, their perfection; all things in any wise good, their goodness.”
The beauty of God - Belongs rather to the beatific vision. Yet David speaks of the Beauty of Christ, “Thou art exceeding fairer then the children of men” Psalms 45:2; and Isaiah says, “Thine eyes shall behold the King in His beauty” Isaiah 33:17. But the Beauty of God “eye hath not seen nor ear heard nor can heart of man conceive.” Here, on earth, created beauty can, at least when suddenly seen, hold the frame motionless, pierce the soul, glue the heart to it, entrance the affections. Light from heaven kindles into beauty our dullest material substances; the soul in grace diffuses beauty over the dullest human countenance; the soul, ere it has passed from the body, has been known to catch, through the half-opened portals, such brilliancy of light, that the eye even for some time after death has retained a brightness, beyond anything of earth . “The earth’s form of beauty is a sort of voice of the dumb earth. Doth not, on considering the beauty of this universe, its very form answer thee with one voice, ‘Not I made myself, but God?’” Poets have said:
“Old friends ... shall lovelier be,
As more of heaven in each we see,”
(Christian Year. Morning Hymn.)
Or,
“When he saw,
“ - God within him light his face.”
(Tennyson, In memoriam. T. has “The God.”)
And Holy Scripture tells us that when Stephen, “full of faith and of the Holy Spirit,” was about to speak of Jesus to the council which arraigned him, “all that sat in the council, looking steadfastly at him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel” Acts 6:5, Acts 6:15. It has been said, that if we could see a soul in grace, its beauty would so pierce us, that we should die. But the natural beauty of the soul transcends all corporeal beauty which so attracts us; the natural beauty of the last angel surpasseth all natural beauty of soul. If we could ascend from the most beautiful form, which the soul could here imagine, to the least glorious body of the beatified, on and on through the countless thousands of glorious bodies, compared wherewith heaven would be dark and the sun lose its shining; and yet more from the most beautiful deified soul, as visible here, to the beauty of the disembodied soul, whose image would scarce be recognized, because , “the bodily eyes gleamed with angelic radiancy;” yea, let the God-enlightened soul go on and on, through all those choirs of the heavenly hierarchies, clad with the raiment of Divinity, from choir to choir, from hierarchy to hierarchy, admiring the order and beauty and harmony of the house of God; yea, let it, aided by divine grace and light, ascend even higher, and reach the bound and term of all created beauty, yet it must know that the divine power and wisdom could create other creatures, far more perfect and beautiful than all which He hath hitherto created.
Nay, let the highest of all the Seraphs sum in one all the beauty by nature and grace and glory of all creatures, yet could it not be satisfied with that beauty, but must, because it was not satisfied with it, conceive some higher beauty. Were God immediately, at every moment to create that higher beauty at its wish, it could still conceive something beyond; for, not being God, its beauty could not satisfy its conception. So let him still, and in hundred thousand, hundred thousand, thousand years with swiftest flight of understanding multiply continually those degrees of beauty, so that each fresh degree should ever double that preceding, and the divine power should, with like swiftness, concur in creating that beauty, as in the beginning He said, “let there be light and there was light;” after all those millions of years, he would be again. at the beginning, and there would be no comparison between it and the divine beauty of Jesus Christ, God and Man. For it is the bliss of the finite not to reach the Infinite . That city of the blest which is lightened by the glory of God, and the Lamb is the light thereof, sees It, enabled by God, as created eye can see It, and is held fast to God in one jubilant exstacy of everlasting love.
“The prophet, borne out of himself by consideration of the divine goodness, stands amazed, while he contemplates the beauty and Deity of Christ: he bursts out with unaccustomed admiration! How great is His goodness, who, to guard His flock, shall come down on earth to lay down His life for the salvation of His sheep! How great His beauty, who is the ““brightnesss of the glory and the Image of the Father,” and comprises in His Godhead the measure of all order and beauty! With what firm might does He strengthen, with what joy does He overwhelm the souls which gaze most frequently on His beauty, and gives largely and bountifully that corn, by whose strength the youths are made strong. He supplieth abundantly the wine, whereby the virgins, on fire with His love, are exhilarated and beautified. But both are necessary, that the strength of the strong should be upheld by the “bread from heaven,” and that sound and uncorrupt minds, melted with the sweetness of love, should be recreated with wine, that is, the sweetness of the Holy Spirit, and be borne aloft with great joy, in the midst of extreme toils. For all who keep holily the faith of Christ, may be called “youths,” for their unconquered strength, and virgins for their purity and integrity of soul. For all these that heavenly bread is prepared, that their strength be not weakened, and the wine is inpoured, that they be not only refreshed, but may live in utmost sweetness.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Zechariah 9:17. How great is his goodness — In himself and towards them.
And how great is his beauty! — His comeliness, holiness, and purity, put in and upon them.
Corn shall make the young men cheerful — They shall be gladdened and strengthened by plenty of food; and they shall speak aloud of God's mercies in their harvest home.
And new wine the maids. — Who shall prepare the wine from an abundant vintage.
