13 「到那天,必為大衛家和耶路撒冷的居民開一個泉源,洗淨他們的罪惡和污穢。

「到那天,我必剷除地上偶像的名號,使它們被人遺忘;我必除去地上的假先知和污穢的靈。這是萬軍之耶和華說的。 若有人再說預言,他的親生父母必對他說,『你不得活命,因為你奉耶和華的名說謊。』他說預言的時候,他的親生父母必把他刺死。 到那天,先知必因自己所講的異象而羞愧,不再穿著毛皮衣欺騙人。 他必說,『我不是先知,我是農夫,我從小便以種田為生。』 若有人問他,『你胸口上的傷是怎麼回事?[a]』他必回答說,『是在我朋友家弄傷的。』」

牧人被殺

萬軍之耶和華說:

「刀劍啊,醒來吧,
要攻擊我的牧人和同伴,
要擊打牧人,羊群將四散,
我必出手攻擊小羊。
地上三分之二的人必遭剷除、毀滅,
只剩下三分之一的人存活。
這是耶和華說的。
我必使這三分之一的人受到火一般的考驗;
我必像熬煉銀子一樣熬煉他們,
像試煉金子一樣試煉他們。
他們必呼求我的名,
我必回應他們。
我必說,『這是我的子民。』
他們必說,『耶和華是我們的上帝。』」

Footnotes

  1. 13·6 異教的先知有用利器自割或自刺的習慣。

13 When that day comes, a spring will be opened up for the house of David and the people living in Yerushalayim to cleanse them from sin and impurity. “When that day comes,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot, “I will cut off the very names of the idols from the land, so that no one even remembers them any more. I will also expel the [false] prophets and the spirit of uncleanness from the land; so that if anyone continues to prophesy, his own father and mother who brought him into the world will tell him, ‘You cannot continue to live, because you are speaking lies in the name of Adonai’; then his own father and mother who brought him into the world will stab him to death. When that day comes, each one of the prophets will be shamed by his vision when he prophesies. He will stop wearing a hair cloak to deceive people; and instead, he will say, ‘I’m no prophet, I just work the soil; since my youth I’ve only wanted to be an ordinary man.’ If someone asks him, ‘Then what are these gashes between your shoulders?’ he will answer, ‘I got hurt at my friends’ house.’

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd,
against the man who is close to me,”
says Adonai-Tzva’ot.
“Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered;
I will turn my hand against the young ones.
In time, throughout that land,” says Adonai,
“two-thirds of those in it will be destroyed —
they will die, but one-third will remain.
That third part I will bring through the fire;
I will refine them as silver is refined,
I will test them as gold is tested.
They will call on my name,
and I will answer them.
I will say, ‘This is my people’
and they will say, ‘Adonai is my God.’”