Zechariah 9:17
Good News Translation
How good and beautiful the land will be! The young people will grow strong on its grain and wine.

New Revised Standard Version
For what goodness and beauty are his! Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the young women.

Contemporary English Version
How lovely they will be. Young people will grow there like grain in a field or grapes in a vineyard.

New American Bible
Then how good and how lovely! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the young women.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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?

how great is his goodness.

Psalm 31:19 O how great is the multitude of thy sweetness, O Lord, which thou hast hidden for them that fear thee! Which thou hast wrought for them that hope in thee, in the sight of the sons of men.

Psalm 36:7 O how hast thou multiplied thy mercy, O God! But the children of men shall put their trust under the cover of thy wings.

Psalm 86:5,15 For thou, O Lord, art sweet and mild: and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee. . . .

Psalm 145:7 They shall publish the memory of the abundance of thy sweetness: and shall rejoice in thy justice.

Isaiah 63:7,15 I will remember the tender mercies of the Lord, the praise of the Lord for all the things that the Lord hath bestowed upon us, and for the multitude of his good things to the house of Israel, which he hath given them according to his kindness, and according to the multitude of his mercies. . . .

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son: that whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but may have life everlasting.

Romans 5:8,20 But God commendeth his charity towards us: because when as yet we were sinners according to the time. . . .

Ephesians 1:7,8 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins, according to the riches of his, grace, . . .

Ephesians 2:4,5 But God (who is rich in mercy) for his exceeding charity wherewith he loved us . . .

Ephesians 3:18,19 You may be able to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, . . .

Titus 3:4-7 But when the goodness and kindness of God our Saviour appeared: . . .

1 John 4:8-11 He that loveth not knoweth not God: for God is charity. . . .

how great is his beauty.

Exodus 15:11 Who is like to thee, among the strong, O Lord? who is like to thee, glorious in holiness, terrible and praise-worthy, doing wonders?

Psalm 45:2 Thou art beautiful above the sons of men: grace is poured abroad in thy lips; therefore hath God blessed thee for ever.

Psalm 50:2 Out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty.

Psalm 90:17 And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct thou the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do thou direct.

Songs 5:10 My beloved is white and ruddy, chosen out of thousands.

Isaiah 33:17 His eyes shall see the king in his beauty, they shall see the land far off.

John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (and we saw his glory, the glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth.

2 Corinthians 4:4-6 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them. . . .

Revelation 5:12-14 Saying with a loud voice: The Lamb that was slain is worthy to receive power and divinity and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and benediction. . . .

corn.

Isaiah 62:8,9 The Lord 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 thy enemies: and the sons of the strangers shall not drink thy wine, for which thou hast laboured. . . .

Isaiah 65:13,14 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold my servants shall eat, and you shall be hungry: behold my servants shall drink, and you shall be thirsty. . . .

Hosea 2:21,22 And it shall come to pass in that day: I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth. . . .

Joel 2:26 And you shall eat in plenty, and shall be filled and you shall praise the name of the Lord your God; who hath done wonders with you, and my people shall not be confounded for ever.

Joel 3:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down sweetness, and the hills shall flow with milk: and waters shall flow through all the rivers of Juda: and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the torrent of thorns.

Amos 8:11-14 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation: and I will bring up sackcloth upon every back of yours, and baldness upon every head: and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the latter end thereof as a bitter day. . . .

Amos 9:13,14 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all nations, because my name is invoked upon them: saith the Lord that doth these things. . . .

Ephesians 5:18,19 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury: but be ye filled with the Holy Spirit, . . .

cheerful.

Songs 7:9 Thy throat like the best wine, worthy for my beloved to drink, and for his lips and his teeth to ruminate.

Context
The LORD will Save His People
16And the Lord their God will save them in that day, as the flock of his people: for holy stones shall be lifted up over his land. 17For what is the good thing of him, and what is his beautiful thing, but the corn of the elect, and wine springing forth virgins?
Cross References
Psalm 27:4
One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. That I may see the delight of the Lord, and may visit his temple.

Isaiah 33:17
His eyes shall see the king in his beauty, they shall see the land far off.

Jeremiah 31:12
And they shall come, and shall give praise in mount Sion: and they shall flow together to the good things of the Lord, for the corn, and wine, and oil, and the increase of cattle and herds, and their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall be hungry no more.

Jeremiah 31:14
And I will fill the soul of the priests with fatness: and my people shall be filled with my good things, saith the Lord.

Zechariah 9:16
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