An End to Idolatry
1 “On that day a spring will be opened for the house of David and for the people of Jerusalem, to purify them from sin and uncleanness.
2 It will come to pass on that day, says the Lord of Hosts, that I will remove the names of the idols from the land, and they will be remembered no more. I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.
3 It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, ‘You must die, because you speak lies in the name of the Lord,’ and his father and his mother who bore him will pierce him through when he prophesies.
4 It will happen at that time, that the prophets will each be ashamed of their vision, when they prophesy, and they will not wear the prophet’s hairy mantle in order to deceive, 5 but the prophet will say, ‘I am no prophet. I work the ground, for from my youth I have been a slave.’ 6 One will say to him, ‘What are these wounds between your arms?’ Then he will answer, ‘Those are from when I was wounded in my friends’ house.’
Shepherd Struck, Sheep Scattered
7 “Awake, sword, against my shepherd,
and against the man who is close to me,” says the Lord of Hosts.
“Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered,
and I will turn my hand against the little ones.
8 It shall happen that in all the land,” says the Lord,
“two-thirds of it will be cut off and die,
but one-third will be left in it.
9 I will bring the third of it through the fire
and will refine them as silver is refined
and will test them like gold is tested.
They will call on my name, and I will hear them.
I will say, ‘It is my people,’
and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’ ”