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13 For I have bent Judah as my bow;
    I have set Ephraim as an arrow.
I will set in motion your sons, O Zion,
    against your sons, O Javan.[a]
I will wield you like the sword of a warrior.
14 Then Yahweh will appear over them,
    and his arrow will go forth like lightning;
and my Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet,
    and he shall go out in the storm winds of the south.
15 Yahweh of hosts will defend them,
    and they will devour and subdue the slingstones;[b]
they will drink, they will make noise[c] like wine,
    and they will be full like the sacrificial basin,[d]
    drenched like the corners of an altar.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 9:13 That is, Greece
  2. Zechariah 9:15 Perhaps metonymy for the slingers of stones
  3. Zechariah 9:15 LXX reads “they will drink blood like wine”
  4. Zechariah 9:15 That is, the ceremonial bowl used by the priest for sprinkling blood