Zechariah 13

Idolatry Cut Off

13“In that ^aday ^ba fountain shall be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for ^cuncleanness.

²“It shall be in that day,” says the Lord of hosts, “that I will ^dcut off the names of the idols from the land, and they shall no longer be remembered. I will also cause ^ethe prophets and the unclean spirit to depart from the land. ³It shall come to pass that if anyone still prophesies, then his father and mother who begot him will say to him, ‘You shall ^fnot live, because you have spoken lies in the name of the Lord.’ And his father and mother who begot him ^gshall thrust him through when he prophesies.

⁴“And it shall be in that day that ^hevery prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; they will not wear ⁱa robe of coarse hair to deceive. ^5jBut he will say, ‘I am no prophet, I am a farmer; for a man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.’ ⁶And one will say to him, ‘What are these wounds between your ¹arms?’ Then he will answer, ‘Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.’

The Shepherd Savior

⁷“Awake, O sword, against ^kMy Shepherd,

Against the Man ^lwho is My Companion,”

Says the Lord of hosts.

^m“Strike the Shepherd,

And the sheep will be scattered;

Then I will turn My hand against ⁿthe little ones.

⁸And it shall come to pass in all the land,”

Says the Lord,

“That ^otwo-thirds in it shall be cut off and die,

^pBut one-third shall be left in it:

⁹I will bring the one-third ^qthrough the fire,

Will ^rrefine them as silver is refined,

And test them as gold is tested.

^sThey will call on My name,

And I will answer them.

^tI will say, ‘This is My people’;

And each one will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’ ”