Zechariah 13

1 On that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David, and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.

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.

2 And it will be on that day, says the Lord of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land and they will be remembered no more. And the prophets and the unclean spirit I will banish from the land.

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Yhwh of Armies, 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.

3 If any man prophesy any more, his father and his mother who bore him, will say to him, ‘You will not live, for you speak falsehood in the name of the Lord.’ And his father and his mother who bore him will stab him through when he is seized by the prophetic frenzy.

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 Yhwh: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.

4 And it will be in that day that the prophets will be ashamed, each of his vision, and will not wear the hairy mantle in order to deceive.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:

5 Each will say, ‘I am not a prophet, a tiller of the ground am I, for the ground is my possession from my youth.’

But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.

6 And they will say to him, ‘What are these scars on your back?’ And he will say, ‘The scars which I received in the house of my friends.’

And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.

7 Awake, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who stands near to me, says the Lord of hosts. I will strike the shepherd so that the sheep may be scattered, I will turn my hand against the little ones.

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith Yhwh of Armies: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.

8 In all the land, says the Lord, two-thirds in it will be cut off and die, but a third will be left in it.

And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith Yhwh, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

9 I will bring the third into the fire, and melt it as one melts silver, and test it as one tests gold. Then they will call on my name, and I myself will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people.’ They will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, Yhwh is my God.