10. I will cut off the chariot from Ephraimand the horse from Jerusalem.The bow of war will be removed,and He will proclaim peace to the nations.His dominion will extend from sea to sea,from the Euphrates Riverto the ends of the earth.
11. As for you,because of the blood of your covenant, I will release your prisonersfrom 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 trumpetand 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.