God’s People Cleansed
1 “On that day a fountainwill be opened for the house of David and for the residents of Jerusalem, to wash away sin and impurity.
2 On that day” — this is the declaration of theLordof Hosts — “I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered.I will remove the prophetsand 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 falsely in the name of Yahweh. When he prophesies, his father and his mother who bore him will pierce him through.
4 On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; they will not put on a hairy cloakin order to deceive.
5 He will say: I am not a prophet; I work the land, for a man purchasedme as a servant since my youth.
6 If someone asks him: What are these woundson your chest?— then he will answer: I received the wounds in the house of my friends.
7 Sword, awake against My shepherd,
against the man who is My associate —
this is the declaration of theLordof Hosts.
Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered;
I will also turn My hand against the little ones.
8 In the whole land —
this is theLord’s declaration —
two-thirdswill be cut off and die,
but a third will be left in it.
9 I will put this third through the fire;
I will refine them as silver is refined
and test them as gold is tested.
They will call on My name,
and I will answer them.
I will say: They are My people,
and they will say: Yahweh is our God.”
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