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

¹¹ Also thou -- by the blood of thy covenant, I have sent thy prisoners out of the pit, There is no water in it. ¹² Turn back to a fenced place, Ye prisoners of the hope, Even to-day a second announcer I restore to thee. ¹³ For I have trodden for Me Judah, A bow I have filled with Ephraim, And I have stirred up thy sons, O Zion, Against thy sons, O Javan, And I have set thee as the sword of a hero. ¹⁴ And Jehovah doth appear for them, And gone forth as lightning hath His arrow, And the Lord Jehovah with a trumpet bloweth, And He hath gone with whirlwinds of the south. ¹⁵ Jehovah of Hosts doth cover them over, And they consumed, and subdued sling-stones, Yea, they have drunk, They have made a noise as wine, And they have been full as a bowl, As corners of an altar. ¹⁶ And saved them hath Jehovah their God In that day, as a flock of His people, For stones of a crown are displaying themselves over His ground. ¹⁷ For what His goodness! and what His beauty! Corn the young men, And new wine the virgins -- make fruitful!