Bible Strands
Amos 9:13
“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Yahweh declares (נְאֻם־יְהוָה) a coming era of agricultural abundance to Israel, framed between the promise of territorial possession (v. 12) and the restoration of exiles to rebuild and plant (v. 14).
The words — נִגָּשׁ (ni.Gash), "he will approach," is the engine of the image: the plowman does not merely follow the reaper but overtakes him, compressing the agricultural year so that one season catches the next.
The thread — Leviticus 26:5 states the same compressed-seasons motif as a covenant blessing ("your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest until sowing time"); Joel 3:18 repeats the mountains-dripping-with-wine image.
Why it lands — The verse defines restoration not as a single event but as a sustained condition of overflow, where the labor of one season is not finished before the next begins.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, 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.
Cross-references
- Joel 3:18 And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.
- John 4:35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest.
- Leviticus 26:5 Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land.
- Isaiah 55:13 Instead of the thornbush, the cypress will grow, and instead of the brier, the myrtle will spring up; this will make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed.”
- Isaiah 35:1 The wilderness and the dry land will be glad; the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.
- Ezekiel 36:35 Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’
- Hosea 2:21 “On that day I will respond—” declares the LORD—“I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth.
- Joel 3:20 But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
- Judges 5:5 The mountains quaked before the LORD, the One of Sinai, before the LORD, the God of Israel.
- Psalms 97:5 The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.