Zechariah 13
1“ ‘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⌟. ▼▼Literally “for sin and for impurity”
2⌞And then⌟, ▼▼Literally “And it will happen”
on that day,’ ⌞declares⌟ ▼▼Literally “declaration of”
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. 3⌞And then⌟, ▼▼Literally “And it will happen”
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. 4⌞And then⌟ ▼▼Literally “And it will happen”
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.” ▼▼Other translations read “for the land has been my possession since my youth”
6And someone ▼▼Hebrew “he”
shall say to him, “What are these wounds ⌞between your arms⌟?” ▼▼Literally “between your hands”; that is, on the chest or on the back
and he will say, “Those I have received ▼▼Hebrew “have been struck”
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⌟ ▼
▼Literally “declaration of”
Yahweh of hosts.“Strike the shepherd,
so that the sheep ▼
▼Or “flock”; the Hebrew term refers collectively to both sheep and goats (small livestock animals)
may be scattered,and I will turn my hand against the small ones.
8⌞And then⌟ ▼
▼Literally “And it will happen”
in all the land,” ⌞declares⌟ ▼▼Literally “declaration of”
Yahweh,“⌞two thirds⌟ ▼
▼Literally “a mouth of two”
will be cut off and perish,and one third will be left alive ▼
▼Hebrew “left over”
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 ▼
▼Hebrew “He”
will call my name,and I will answer them. ▼
▼Hebrew “him”
I will say, ‘They ▼
▼Hebrew “He”
are my people,’and they ▼
▼Hebrew “he”
will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”
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