◄ Isaiah 62:9 ►
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Good News Translation
But you that planted and harvested the grain Will eat the bread and praise the LORD. You that tended and gathered the grapes Will drink the wine in the courts of my Temple."

New Revised Standard Version
but those who garner it shall eat it and praise the LORD, and those who gather it shall drink it in my holy courts.

Contemporary English Version
As surely as you harvest your grain and grapes, you will eat your bread with thankful hearts, and you will drink your wine in my temple."

New American Bible
But those who harvest shall eat, and praise the LORD; Those who gather shall drink in my holy courts.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For they that gather it, shall eat it, and shall praise the Lord: and they that bring it together, shall drink it in my holy courts.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For they that gather it, shall eat it, and shall praise the Lord: and they that bring it together, shall drink it in my holy courts.

shall eat

Deuteronomy 12:7,12 And you shall eat there in the sight of the Lord your God: and you shall rejoice in all things, whereunto you shall put your hand, you and your houses wherein the Lord your God hath blessed you. . . .

Deuteronomy 14:23-29 And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, that his name may be called upon therein, the tithe of thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, and the firstborn of thy herds and thy sheep: that thou mayst learn to fear the Lord thy God at all times. . . .

Deuteronomy 16:11,14 And thou shalt feast before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger and the fatherless, and the widow, who abide with you: in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there: . . .

Context
Zion's Salvation and New Name
…8The 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. 9For they that gather it, shall eat it, and shall praise the Lord: and they that bring it together, shall drink it in my holy courts.10Go through, go through the gates, prepare the way for the people, make the road plain, pick out the stones, and lift up the standard to the people.…
Cross References
Isaiah 55:2
Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which doth not satisfy you? Hearken diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and your soul shall be delighted in fatness.

Isaiah 65:13
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.

Isaiah 65:21
And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruits of them.

Isaiah 65:22
They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree, so shall be the days of my people, and the works of their hands shall be of long continuance.

Ezekiel 40:14
He made also fronts of sixty cubits: and to the front the court of the gate on every side round about.

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.

Zechariah 3:7
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: If thou wilt walk in my ways, and keep my charge, thou also shalt judge my house, and shalt keep my courts, and I will give thee some of them that are now present here to walk with thee.

Isaiah 62:8
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