Zechariah 13

1“ ‘On that day a well will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and from impurity.[#Literally “for sin and for impurity”]

2And then, on that day,’ declares Yahweh of hosts, ‘I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and also the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness I will banish from the land.[#Literally “And it will happen”; #Literally “declaration of”]

3And then, if anyone prophesies again, his father and his mother who bore him will say to him, “You shall not live, because you have spoken a lie in the name of Yahweh!” And his father and his mother who bore him will pierce him through when he prophesies.[#Literally “And it will happen”]

4And then on that day, each of the prophets will be ashamed because of his vision when he was prophesying, and they will not put on a cloak of hair in order to deceive,[#Literally “And it will happen”]

5but he will say, “I am not a prophet; I am a tiller of the soil, for a man has acquired me since my youth.”[#Other translations read “for the land has been my possession since my youth”]

6And someone shall say to him, “What are these wounds between your arms?” and he will say, “Those I have received in the house of the ones who love me.” ’ ”[#Hebrew “he”; #Literally “between your hands”; that is, on the chest or on the back; #Hebrew “have been struck”]

The Sword Shall Strike the Shepherd

7“O sword, awake against my shepherd,

“Strike the shepherd,

8And then in all the land,” declares Yahweh,[#Literally “And it will happen”; #Literally “declaration of”]

9And I will bring the remaining third into the fire,

They will call my name,

I will say, ‘They are my people,’

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