The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Zechariah 13
1 “In that day there will be a fountain
opened to David’s house and to the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
2 It will come to pass in that day, says
Yahweh of Armies, that I will cut off the
names of the idols out of the land, and
they will be remembered no more. I will
also cause the prophets and the spirit of
impurity to pass out of 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 Yahweh’s name;’
and his father and his mother who bore
him will stab him when he prophesies.
4 It will happen in that day that the
prophets will each be ashamed of his vision
when he prophesies; they won’t wear
a hairy mantle to deceive,
5 but he will say, ‘I am no prophet, I am a
tiller of the ground; for I have been made a
bondservant from my youth.’
6 One will say to him, ‘What are these
wounds between your arms?’ Then he will
answer, ‘Those with which I was wounded
in the house of my friends.’
7 “Awake, sword, against my shepherd,
and against the man who is close to
me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
“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
Yahweh, “two parts in it will be cut off and die;
but the third will be left in it.
9 I will bring the third part into 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, ‘Yahweh is my
God.