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334 VISIONS AND PROPHECIES OF ZECHARIAH
cheerful" (yenobhabh, literally, to " grow" or to "increase"), " and new wine the maids (or virgins )."
But the mention of young men and maidens is, as has been observed, merely intended to " heighten the picture of prosperity given by the prophet," and is in some respects a parallel to the prophetic description of the prosperity of the land and people in the earlier portion of the book, where the streets of Jerusalem are spoken of as being again " full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof " l
1 Chap. viii. 5.
