Zechariah 13
1 On that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
2 On that day—declares the LORD of Armies—I will remove the names of the idols from the land, and they will be remembered no more. I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.
3 And if anyone still prophesies, the father and mother who gave birth to him will say to him, “You must not live, because you have spoken a lie in the name of the LORD.” And the father and mother who gave birth to him will pierce him when he prophesies.
4 On that day the prophets will be ashamed, each of his vision when he prophesies; they will no longer wear a hairy mantle to deceive.
5 Each one will say, “I am not a prophet; I am a man who works the land, because a man bought me when I was young.”
6 Someone will say to him, “What are these wounds between your hands?” He will answer, “These are the wounds I received in the house of my friends.”
7 “Sword, awake against my shepherd, against the man who is my companion,” declares the LORD of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will scatter; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.”
8 And throughout the land—declares the LORD—two parts will be cut off and die, but the third part will remain in it.
9 I will bring that third part through the fire; I will refine them as silver is refined and test them as gold is tested. He will call on my name, and I will answer him. I will say, “He is my people,” and he will say, “The LORD is my God.”
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