Zechariah 9:11-17 - The Restoration Of God's People

¹¹ As for you,
because of the blood of your covenant,
I will release your prisoners
from the waterless cistern.
¹² Return to a stronghold,
you prisoners who have hope;
today I declare that I will restore double to you.
¹³ For I will bend Judah as My bow;
I will fill that bow with Ephraim.
I will rouse your sons, Zion,
against your sons, Greece.
I will make you like a warrior’s sword.
¹⁴ Then the Lord will appear over them,
and His arrow will fly like lightning.
The Lord God will sound the trumpet
and advance with the southern storms.
¹⁵ The Lord of Hosts will defend them.
They will consume and conquer with slingstones;
they will drink and be rowdy as if with wine.
They will be as full as the sprinkling basin,
like those at the corners of the altar.
¹⁶ The Lord their God will save them on that day
as the flock of His people;
for they are like jewels in a crown,
sparkling over His land.
¹⁷ How lovely and beautiful they will be!
Grain will make the young men flourish,
and new wine, the young women.