Zechariah 13

GOD’S PEOPLE CLEANSED

13“On that day a fountain^q will be opened for the house of David and for the residents of Jerusalem, to wash away sin and impurity.^{r 2}On that day”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies—“I will remove the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered.^s I will banish the prophets^H and the unclean spirit from the land. ³If a man still prophesies, his father and his mother who bore him will say to him, ‘You cannot remain alive because you have spoken a lie in the name of the Lord.’ When he prophesies, his father and his mother who bore him will pierce him through.^{t 4}On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; they will not put on a hairy cloak^u in order to deceive. ⁵He will say, ‘I am not a prophet; I work the land, for a man purchased^F me as a servant since my youth.’^{v 6}If someone asks him, ‘What are these wounds^w on your chest?’^G—then he will answer, ‘I received the wounds in the house of my friends’.

⁷Sword, awake against my shepherd,

against the man who is my associate—

this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies.

Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered;^a

I will turn my hand against the little ones.

⁸In the whole land—

this is the Lord’s declaration—

two-thirds^H will be cut off and die,

but a third will be left in it.

⁹I will put this third through the fire;

I will refine them as silver is refined

and test them as gold is tested.^b

They will call on my name,

and I will answer them.^c

I will say, ‘They are my people’,

and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’ ”^d