The Meaning of Amos 9:13 Explained

Amos 9:13

KJV: 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.

YLT: Lo, days are coming -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And come nigh hath the ploughman to the reaper, And the treader of grapes to the scatterer of seed, And the mountains have dropped juice, And all the hills do melt.

Darby: Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, when the ploughman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop new wine, and all the hills shall melt.

ASV: Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, 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.

Discover Amos 9:13

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Amos 9:13?

MEANING: What does Amos 9:13 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Amos 9:13 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Amos 9:13?

What is the context of Amos 9:13?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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.

What does Amos 9:13 Mean?

Verse Meaning

In contrast to the images of judgment that Amos had painted throughout this book, days were coming when these terrible conditions would be reversed. The land would become so productive that farmers planting seed for the next harvest would push reapers of the same fields to finish their work so they could plant the next crop. Normally the Israelites plowed their fields in October and the reaping ended in May, but in the future reaping would still be going on in October because of the huge harvests. Wine-makers would similarly push the farmers to plant more vines. The grape harvest took place in August, and farmers planted new vines in November. Harvests would be so abundant that the gathering of one crop would not end before it was time to begin the new crop.

The mountains would be so full of fruitful grapevines that they could be described as dripping with sweet (the best) wine. All the hills would be dissolved in the sense of flowing down with produce, perhaps even washing the soil away with grape juice. This verse pictures the reversing of the curse that God pronounced on the earth at the Fall ( Genesis 3:17-19). Instead of drought and famine ( Amos 1:2; Amos 4:6-8) there would be abundant harvests (cf. Leviticus 26:3-5; Deuteronomy 28:4-5; Deuteronomy 28:8; Deuteronomy 28:11-12). Even though these may be hyperbolic images, the point is clear.

Context Summary

Amos 9:1-15 - The Day Of Restoration

The guilty will certainly be punished. If they enter the sacred place of worship, even that will not shelter them, Amos 9:1. Flight and concealment will be in vain. Let them climb ever so high, or burrow ever so deep; let them scale the loftiest hills, or dive into the deepest seas-the consequences of their sins will overtake them, Amos 9:2-3. How can sinners hope to escape from Him whose chambers are built in the heavens and whose voice governs the tides, Amos 9:6? The great desolations of the past prove the exactness and severity of His judgments, Amos 9:7-8. How remarkably Amos 9:9 has been fulfilled? Notwithstanding their scatterings, the Hebrew people have been preserved as a race.

The final paragraph, Amos 9:11-15, is very reassuring. It is a burst of noble anticipation, quoted by the Apostle James, Acts 15:14-17. The promises made to Abraham and David are yet to be fulfilled. The derision of their foes, of whom Edom was the ringleader, will be silenced. Through the parted curtain, we descry the golden age of the future. There is a divine plan working to its conclusion, and Israel shall yet come again to the land given to their fathers [source]

Chapter Summary: Amos 9

¹ The certainty of the desolation
¹¹ The restoring of the tabernacle of David

What do the individual words in Amos 9:13 mean?

Behold the days are coming says Yahweh and when shall overtake the plowman the reaper and the treader of grapes him who sows seed and shall drip the mountains with sweet wine and all the hills shall flow [with it]

הִנֵּ֨ה יָמִ֤ים בָּאִים֙ נְאֻם־ יְהוָ֔ה וְנִגַּ֤שׁ חוֹרֵשׁ֙ בַּקֹּצֵ֔ר וְדֹרֵ֥ךְ עֲנָבִ֖ים בְּמֹשֵׁ֣ךְ הַזָּ֑רַע וְהִטִּ֤יפוּ הֶֽהָרִים֙ עָסִ֔יס וְכָל־ הַגְּבָע֖וֹת תִּתְמוֹגַֽגְנָה

הִנֵּ֨ה	Behold
Parse: Interjection Root: הִנֵּה Sense: behold, lo, see, if.
יָמִ֤ים	the days
Parse: Noun, masculine plural Root: יׄום Sense: day, time, year.
בָּאִים֙	are coming
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine plural Root: בֹּוא Sense: to go in, enter, come, go, come in.
נְאֻם־	says
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct Root: נְאֻם Sense: (Qal) utterance, declaration (of prophet).
יְהוָ֔ה	Yahweh
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular Root: יהוה Sense: the proper name of the one true God.
וְנִגַּ֤שׁ	and when shall overtake
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Nifal, Conjunctive perfect, third person masculine singular Root: נָגַשׁ Sense: to draw near, approach.
חוֹרֵשׁ֙	the plowman
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine singular Root: חָרַשׁ Sense: to cut in, plough, engrave, devise.
בַּקֹּצֵ֔ר	the reaper
Parse: Preposition-b, Article, Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine singular Root: קָצוּר Sense: to be short, be impatient, be vexed, be grieved.
וְדֹרֵ֥ךְ	and the treader
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine singular construct Root: דָּרַךְ Sense: to tread, bend, lead, march.
עֲנָבִ֖ים	of grapes
Parse: Noun, masculine plural Root: עֵנָב Sense: grape(s).
בְּמֹשֵׁ֣ךְ	him who sows
Parse: Preposition-b, Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine singular construct Root: מָשַׁךְ Sense: to draw, drag, seize.
הַזָּ֑רַע	seed
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular Root: זֶרַע Sense: seed, sowing, offspring.
וְהִטִּ֤יפוּ	and shall drip
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Hifil, Conjunctive perfect, third person common plural Root: נָטַף Sense: to drop, drip, distil, prophesy, preach, discourse.
הֶֽהָרִים֙	the mountains
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine plural Root: הַר Sense: hill, mountain, hill country, mount.
עָסִ֔יס	with sweet wine
Parse: Noun, masculine singular Root: עָסִיס Sense: sweet wine, wine, pressed out juice.
וְכָל־	and all
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular construct Root: כֹּל Sense: all, the whole.
הַגְּבָע֖וֹת	the hills
Parse: Article, Noun, feminine plural Root: גִּבְעָה Sense: hill.
תִּתְמוֹגַֽגְנָה	shall flow [with it]
Parse: Verb, Hitpael, Imperfect, third person feminine plural Root: מוּג Sense: to melt, cause to melt.

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