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12 You prisoners who have hope,
    return to your place of safety.
Today I am telling you
    that I will give you back twice as much as before.
13 I will use Judah like a bow.
    And Ephraim will be like the arrows.
Jerusalem, I will use your men
    to fight the men of Greece.
    I will make you like the sword of a warrior.

14 Then the Lord will appear to them.
    He will shoot his arrows like lightning.
The Lord God will blow the trumpet.
    And he will march in the storms of the south.

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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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