Zechariah 9:12-14

New International Reader's Version

¹² Return to your place of safety,
    you prisoners who still have hope.
Even now I announce that I will give you back
    much more than you had before.
¹³ I will bend Judah as I bend my bow.
    I will make Ephraim’s people my arrows.
Zion, I will stir up your sons.
    Greece, they will attack your sons.
    My people, I will use you as my sword.”

¹⁴ Then the Lord will appear over his people.
    His arrows will flash like lightning.
The Lord and King will blow the trumpet of his thunder.
    He’ll march out like a storm in the south.