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Jerusalem Refined and Tested

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

“And it will be in that day,” declares Yahweh of hosts, “that I will (D)cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and I will also cause the (E)prophets and the (F)unclean spirit to pass away from the land. And it will be that if anyone still (G)prophesies, then his father and mother who gave birth to him will say to him, ‘You shall (H)not live, for you have spoken (I)falsely in the name of Yahweh’; and his (J)father and mother who gave birth to him will pierce him through when he prophesies. And it will be in that day, that the prophets will each be (K)ashamed of his vision when he prophesies, and they will not put on a (L)hairy mantle in order to deceive; but he will say, ‘I am (M)not a prophet; I am a cultivator of the ground, for a man [a]sold me as a slave in my youth.’ And one will say to him, ‘What are these wounds struck here (N)between your [b]arms?’ Then he will say, ‘Those with which I was struck in the house of [c]my friends.’

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 13:5 Lit caused another to buy me
  2. Zechariah 13:6 Lit hands
  3. Zechariah 13:6 Lit those who love me

13 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered; and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land. And it shall come to pass that, when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of Jehovah; and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he prophesieth; neither shall they wear a hairy mantle to deceive: but he shall say, I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondman from my youth. And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds between thine [a]arms? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my [b]friends.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 13:6 Hebrew hands.
  2. Zechariah 13:6 Or, lovers