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,’ declaresYahweh 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 thenon 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 someoneshall say to him, “What are these wounds between your arms?”and he will say, “Those I have receivedin the house of the ones who love me.” ’ ”

The Sword Shall Strike the Shepherd

7 “O sword, awake against my shepherd,

against the man who is my associate,”

declaresYahweh of hosts.

“Strike the shepherd,

so that the sheepmay be scattered,

and I will turn my hand against the small ones.

8 And thenin all the land,” declaresYahweh,

“two thirdswill be cut off and perish,

and one third will be left alivein 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.

Theywill call my name,

and I will answer them.

I will say, ‘Theyare my people,’

and theywill say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”