12. Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope;today I declare that I will restore to you double.
13. For I have bent Judah as my bow;I have made Ephraim its arrow.I will stir up your sons, O Zion,against your sons, O Greece,and wield you like a warrior’s sword.
14. Then the Lord will appear over them,and his arrow will go forth like lightning; the Lord God will sound the trumpetand will march forth in the whirlwinds of the south.
15. The Lord of hosts will protect them,and they shall devour, and tread down the sling stones,and they shall drink and roar as if drunk with wine,and be full like a bowl,drenched like the corners of the altar.
16. On that day the Lord their God will save them,as the flock of his people;for like the jewels of a crownthey shall shine on his land.
17. For how great is his goodness, and how great his beauty! Grain shall make the young men flourish,and new wine the young women.