Zechariah 13

LEB(i) 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.* 2 And 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. 3 And 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. 4 And 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, 5 but he will say, "I am not a prophet; I am a tiller of the soil, for a man has acquired me since my youth."* 6 And 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." '" 7 "O sword, awake against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate," declares* Yahweh of hosts. "Strike the shepherd, so that the sheep* may be scattered, and I will turn my hand against the small ones. 8 And then* in all the land," declares* Yahweh, "two thirds* will be cut off and perish, and one third will be left alive* in it. 9 And I will bring the remaining third into the fire, and I will refine them like one refines silver, and I will test them like one tests gold. They* will call my name, and I will answer them.* I will say, 'They* are my people,' and they* will say, 'Yahweh is my God.'"