12. Return to your stronghold, prisoners who now have hope.Today I declare that I will return to you a double portion.
13. Because I have bent Judah as My bowand fitted the bow with Ephraim.I will stir up your sons, O Zion,against your sons, O Greece,and will set you like the sword of a warrior.
14. Then the Lord will appear over them,and His arrow will go out like lightning.The Lord God will sound His trumpet,and will march forth like storm winds of southern Teman.
15. The Lord of Hosts will protect them.They will devour upand subdue them with stone slingers.And they will drink and make noise as with wine;they will be filled with blood as a bowl,saturated like the corners of the altar.
16. The Lord their God will deliver them that daylike the flock of His people.For like jewels embedded in a crown,they will shine in His land.
17. For how great is His goodness, and how great His beauty!There will be grain for the young menand new wine to prosper the young women.