Zechariah 9:12-16 Return to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope,––Even today, do I declare–

Rotherham⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹² Return to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope,––Even today, 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.