Zechariah 13:1-6

Christian Standard Bible

God’s People Cleansed

13 “On that day a fountain^(A) will be opened for the house of David and for the residents of Jerusalem, to wash away sin and impurity.^{(B) 2} On that day”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies—“I will remove the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered.^(C) I will banish the prophets^[a] and the unclean spirit from the land. ³ If a man still prophesies, his father and his mother who bore him will say to him, ‘You cannot remain alive because you have spoken a lie in the name of the Lord.’ When he prophesies, his father and his mother who bore him will pierce him through.^{(D) 4} On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; they will not put on a hairy cloak^(E) in order to deceive. ⁵ He will say, ‘I am not a prophet; I work the land, for a man purchased^[b] me as a servant since my youth.’^{(F) 6} If someone asks him, ‘What are these wounds^(G) on your chest?’^[c]—then he will answer, ‘I received the wounds in the house of my friends.’