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Uma fonte purificadora do pecado

13 Nesse tempo, haverá uma fonte aberta para todos os descendentes de David e para os habitantes de Jerusalém, uma fonte que os purificará da sua impureza e do seu pecado.”

O Senhor do exércitos declara: “Nessa altura, farei desaparecer em absoluto qualquer vestígio de culto idólatra, em toda a terra, de tal forma que até o nome dos ídolos será esquecido. A terra será varrida de todos os falsos profetas e de leitores de sina. Se alguém recomeçar com falsas profecias, os seus próprios pais dir-lhe-ão: ‘Tens de morrer, porque estás a profetizar mentiras em nome do Senhor!’ E os seus pais, que o geraram, o trespassarão assim que profetizar.

Ninguém se gabará do seu dom de profecia! Ninguém trará roupa de profeta tentando enganar o povo novamente. ‘Não!’, dirão eles. ‘Não sou profeta! Sou um trabalhador rural; a terra tem sido o meu trabalho desde a minha meninice.’

E se alguém lhe perguntar: ‘Então que cicatrizes são essas que tens no peito e nas costas?’, responderá: ‘São as feridas que me fizeram na casa dos meus amigos!’

Ergue-te, ó espada, contra o meu pastor, o homem que é meu companheiro, meu parceiro, diz o Senhor dos exércitos! Fere o pastor e espalhar-se-ão as ovelhas. Contudo, voltarei atrás e confortarei os cordeiros, tratando deles. Dois terços da nação de Israel expirarão, mas um terço ficará na terra. Farei passar essa terça parte pelo fogo, purificando-a tal como o ouro e a prata são refinados e purificados pelo fogo. Invocarão o meu nome e ouvi-los-ei. Direi: ‘São o meu povo!’ E eles dirão: ‘O Senhor é o nosso Deus!’ ”

Idolatry Cut Off

13 “In that (A)day (B)a fountain shall be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for (C)uncleanness.

“It shall be in that day,” says the Lord of hosts, “that I will (D)cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they shall no longer be remembered. I will also cause (E)the prophets and the unclean spirit to depart from the land. It shall come to pass that if anyone still prophesies, then his father and mother who begot him will say to him, ‘You shall (F)not live, because you have spoken lies in the name of the Lord.’ And his father and mother who begot him (G)shall thrust him through when he prophesies.

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

The Shepherd Savior

“Awake, O sword, against (K)My Shepherd,
Against the Man (L)who 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 (N)the little ones.
And it shall come to pass in all the land,”
Says the Lord,
That (O)two-thirds in it shall be cut off and die,
(P)But one-third shall be left in it:
I will bring the one-third (Q)through the fire,
Will (R)refine them as silver is refined,
And test them as gold is tested.
(S)They will call on My name,
And I will answer them.
(T)I will say, ‘This is My people’;
And each one will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’ ”

Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 13:6 Or hands

13 (A)“On that day there shall be (B)a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness.

Idolatry Cut Off

“And (C)on that day, declares the Lord of hosts, (D)I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that (E)they shall be remembered no more. And also (F)I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness. And if anyone again prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, (G)‘You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the Lord.’ And his father and mother who bore him shall pierce him through when he prophesies.

“On that day (H)every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies. He will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive, but he will say, (I)‘I am no prophet, I am a worker of the soil, for a man sold me in my youth.’[a] And if one asks him, ‘What are these wounds on your back?’[b] he will say, ‘The wounds I received in the house of my friends.’

The Shepherd Struck

“Awake, O sword, against (J)my shepherd,
    against the man who stands next to me,”
declares the Lord of hosts.

(K)“Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered;
    I will turn my hand against the little ones.
In the whole land, declares the Lord,
    two thirds shall be cut off and perish,
    (L)and one third shall be left alive.
And (M)I will put this third into the fire,
    and refine them as one refines silver,
    and test them as gold is tested.
(N)They will call upon my name,
    and (O)I will answer them.
(P)I will say, ‘They are my people’;
    and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”

Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 13:5 Or for the land has been my possession since my youth
  2. Zechariah 13:6 Or on your chest; Hebrew wounds between your hands