11. As for you, because of the blood of the agreement with youI will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
12. You prisoners who have hope,return to your place of safety.Today I am telling youthat I will give you back twice as much as before.
13. I will use Judah like a bowand Ephraim like the arrows.Jerusalem, I will use your mento fight the men of Greece.I will use you like a warrior’s sword.
14. Then the Lord will appear above them,and his arrows will shoot like lightning.The Lord God will blow the trumpet,and he will march in the storms of the south.
15. The Lord All-Powerful will protect them;they will destroy the enemy with slingshots.They will drink and shout like drunks.They will be filled like a bowlused for sprinkling blood at the corners of the altar.
16. On that day the Lord their God will save themas if his people were sheep.They will shine in his landlike jewels in a crown.
17. They will be so pretty and beautiful.The young men will grow strong on the grainand the young women on new wine.