Zechariah 13

CHAPTER 13

Jerusalem Refined and Tested

¹“In that day a ^afountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for ^bsin and for ^cimpurity.

²“And it will be in that day,” declares Yahweh of hosts, “that I will ^acut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and I will also cause the ^bprophets and the ^cunclean spirit to pass away from the land.

³“And it will be that if anyone still ^aprophesies, then his father and mother who gave birth to him will say to him, ‘You shall ^bnot live, for you have spoken ^cfalsely in the name of Yahweh’; and his ^dfather and mother who gave birth to him will pierce him through when he prophesies.

⁴“And it will be in that day, that the prophets will each be ^aashamed of his vision when he prophesies, and they will not put on a ^bhairy mantle in order to deceive;

⁵but he will say, ‘I am ^anot a prophet; I am a cultivator of the ground, for a man ¹sold me as a slave in my youth.’

⁶“And one will say to him, ‘What are these wounds struck here ^abetween your ¹arms?’ Then he will say, ‘Those with which I was struck in the house of ²my friends.’

⁷“Awake, O ^asword, against My ^bShepherd

And against the man, My ^cAssociate,”

Declares Yahweh of hosts.

“^dStrike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered;

And I will ^eturn My hand ¹against the little ones.

⁸“And it will be in all the land,”

Declares Yahweh,

“That ^atwo parts in it will be cut off and breathe their last;

But the third will be left in it.

⁹“And I will bring the third part through the ^afire

And refine them as silver is refined

And test them as gold is tested.

¹They will ^bcall on My name,

And I will ^canswer them;

I will say, ‘They are ^dMy people,’

And they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’”