Zechariah 9:17

his goodness … his beauty i.e. either Israel's (their prosperity, R. V. margin), as thus delivered and honoured by God (comp. Hosea 14:6), or God's, the exclamation being drawn from the prophet by the consideration of the great things he had been commissioned to make known. "The goodness and the beauty are the goodness and beauty of God, whose great doings had been his theme before." Pusey, who quotes Osirius: "The prophet, borne out of himself by the consideration of the Divine goodness, stands amazed while he contemplates the beauty and Deity of Christ: he bursts out with unwonted admiration! How great is His goodness, who to guard His flock shall come down on earth to lay down His life for the salvation of His sheep! How great His beauty, who is the brightness of the glory and the Image of the Father, and comprises in His Godhead the measure of all order and beauty!"