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12     and offer you hope.
Return to your fortress,
because today I will reward you
    with twice what you had.
13 I will use Judah as my bow
    and Israel[a] as my arrow.
I will take the people of Zion
as my sword
    and attack the Greeks.

The Lord Will Protect His People

14 Like a cloud, the Lord God
    will appear over his people,
and his arrows will flash
    like lightning.
God will sound his trumpet
and attack in a whirlwind
    from the south.

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Footnotes

  1. 9.13 Israel: Hebrew “Ephraim” (see the note at 9.10).

12 Return to your fortress,(A) you prisoners of hope;
    even now I announce that I will restore twice(B) as much to you.
13 I will bend Judah as I bend my bow(C)
    and fill it with Ephraim.(D)
I will rouse your sons, Zion,
    against your sons, Greece,(E)
    and make you like a warrior’s sword.(F)

The Lord Will Appear

14 Then the Lord will appear over them;(G)
    his arrow will flash like lightning.(H)
The Sovereign Lord will sound the trumpet;(I)
    he will march in the storms(J) of the south,

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