For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
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!” Psa 8:1, and Jacob, “How awful is this place!” Gen 28:17,…
Adam Clarke
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…
The prophet, having taught those that had returned out of captivity to attribute their deliverance to the blood of the covenant and to the promise of the Messiah (for they were so wonderfully helped…
Cambridge Bible
his goodness … his beauty i.e. either Israel's (their prosperity, R. V. margin), as thus delivered and honoured by God (comp. Hos 14:6), or God's, the exclamation being drawn from the prophet by the…
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