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12     Return to your walled cities, safe and secure,
        O hostages of hope.
    I announce today that I will restore to you twice as much as what was taken.
13     For My people will be My weapons:
        Judah, My drawn bow, loaded with Ephraim, My arrow.
    I will stir your sons, Zion, making them My attacking hordes against the sons of Greece,
        and I will brandish you like a warrior’s sword.

14 Then the Eternal will appear over them,
    and His arrow will move like lightning;
The Eternal Lord will sound the battle trumpet
    and cloak His marching forces in an approaching storm from 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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