Zechariah 13

13“ ‘On that day a well will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and from impurity.^{a 2}And then,^b on that day,’ declares^c Yahweh of hosts, ‘I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and also the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness I will banish from the land. ³And then,^d if anyone prophesies again, his father and his mother who bore him will say to him, “You shall not live, because you have spoken a lie in the name of Yahweh!” And his father and his mother who bore him will pierce him through when he prophesies. ⁴And then^e on that day, each of the prophets will be ashamed because of his vision when he was prophesying, and they will not put on a cloak of hair in order to deceive, ⁵but he will say, “I am not a prophet; I am a tiller of the soil, for a man has acquired me since my youth.”^{f 6}And someone^g shall say to him, “What are these wounds between your arms?”^h and he will say, “Those I have receivedⁱ in the house of the ones who love me.” ’ ”

The Sword Shall Strike the Shepherd

⁷“O sword, awake against my shepherd,

against the man who is my associate,”

declares^j Yahweh of hosts.

“Strike the shepherd,

so that the sheep^k may be scattered,

and I will turn my hand against the small ones.

⁸And then^l in all the land,” declares^m Yahweh,

“two thirdsⁿ will be cut off and perish,

and one third will be left alive^o in it.

⁹And I will bring the remaining third into the fire,

and I will refine them like one refines silver,

and I will test them like one tests gold.

They^p will call my name,

and I will answer them.^q

I will say, ‘They^r are my people,’

and they^s will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”