13:1 | "In that day a fountain shall be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness. |
13:2 | "It shall be in that day," says the LORD of hosts, "[that] I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they shall no longer be remembered. I will also cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to depart from the land. |
13:3 | "It shall come to pass [that] if anyone still prophesies, then his father and mother who begot him will say to him, `You shall not live, because you have spoken lies in the name of the LORD.' And his father and mother who begot him shall thrust him through when he prophesies. |
13:4 | "And it shall be in that day [that] every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; they will not wear a robe of coarse hair to deceive. |
13:5 | "But he will say, `I [am] no prophet, I [am] a farmer; for a man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.' |
13:6 | "And [one] will say to him, `What are these wounds between your arms?' Then he will answer, `[Those] with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.' |
13:7 | "Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, Against the Man who is My Companion," Says the LORD of hosts. "Strike the Shepherd, And the sheep will be scattered; Then I will turn My hand against the little ones. |
13:8 | And it shall come to pass in all the land," Says the LORD, "[That] twothirds in it shall be cut off [and] die, But [one]third shall be left in it: |
13:9 | I will bring the [onethird] through the fire, 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, `This [is] My people';And each one will say, `The LORD [is] my God.'" |