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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 bow
    and 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.

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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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