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

¹¹ As for thee also, - By the blood of thy covenant, have I sent forth thy prisoners out of a pit, wherein is no water. ¹² Return to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope, - Even to-day, do I declare - Double, will I return to thee! ¹³ For I have bent for me - Judah, As a bow, have I grasped Ephraim, Thus will I rouse up thy sons, O Zion, against the sons of Greece, and will make thee as the sword of a mighty one. ¹⁴ But, Yahweh, over them, will appear, and forth shall go, as lightning, his arrow, - Yea, My Lord Yahweh, with a horn, will blow, and will move along in the whirlwinds of the south. ¹⁵ Yahweh of hosts, will throw a covering over them, so shall they eat, and trample underfoot sling-stones, and shall drink - shall shout as with wine, - and shall be filled like tossing-bowls, - like the corners of an altar. ¹⁶ So will Yahweh their God, save them, on that day. yea, as a flock of sheep, his people, - for they shall be like the jewels of a diadem sparkling over his land. ¹⁷ For how excellent it is! Yea how beautiful! Corn, shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the maidens.