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12 Return to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope!
    Today I declare that I will restore twice as much to you.
13 I will bend Judah as my bow
        and fill it with Ephraim.
    I will rouse your sons, O Zion
        against your sons, O Greece.
    I will wield you like a warrior’s sword.
14 Then Adonai will be seen over them
    as His arrow flashes like lightning.
Adonai Elohim will blow the shofar
    and march in whirlwinds of the south.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 9:14 cf. Matt. 24:31.

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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