Zechariah 13
Christian Standard Bible Anglicised
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.”
7 Sword, awake against my shepherd,
against the man who is my associate –
this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies.
Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered;(H)
I will turn my hand against the little ones.
8 In the whole land –
this is the Lord’s declaration –
two-thirds[d] will 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.(I)
They will call on my name,
and I will answer them.(J)
I will say, “They are my people,”
and they will say, “The Lord is our God.” ’(K)
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