12 Return to your fortress,(A) you prisoners of hope;
    even now I announce that I will restore twice(B) as much to you.

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11-13 “And you, because of my blood covenant with you,
    I’ll release your prisoners from their hopeless cells.
Come home, hope-filled prisoners!
    This very day I’m declaring a double bonus—
    everything you lost returned twice-over!
Judah is now my weapon, the bow I’ll pull,
    setting Ephraim as an arrow to the string.
I’ll wake up your sons, O Zion,
    to counter your sons, O Greece.
From now on
    people are my swords.”

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12 Return to the [a](A)stronghold, you prisoners [b]who have the (B)hope;
This very day I am declaring that I will restore (C)double to you.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 9:12 Or Stronghold
  2. Zechariah 9:12 Lit of the hope