9:11 Moreover, as for you, because of our covenant relationship secured with blood, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.
9:12 Return to the stronghold, you prisoners, with hope; today I declare that I will return double what was taken from you.
9:13 I will bend Judah as my bow; I will load the bow with Ephraim, my arrow!
9:14 Then the Lord will appear above them, and his arrow will shoot forth like lightning; the Lord God will blow the trumpet and will sally forth on the southern storm winds.
9:15 The Lord who rules over all will guard them, and they will prevail and overcome with sling stones. Then they will drink, and will become noisy like drunkards,
10:1 Ask the Lord for rain in the season of the late spring rains