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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1On that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the residents of Jerusalem, to wash away sin and impurity. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2On that day"--this is the declaration of the LORD of Hosts--"I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3If a man still prophesies, his father and his mother who bore him will say to him: You cannot remain alive because you have spoken falsely in the name of Yahweh. When he prophesies, his father and his mother who bore him will pierce him through. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; they will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5He will say: I am not a prophet; I work the land, for a man purchased me as a servant since my youth. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6If someone asks him: What are these wounds on your chest?--then he will answer: I received the wounds in the house of my friends. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Sword, awake against My shepherd, against the man who is My associate-- this is the declaration of the LORD of Hosts. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; I will also turn My hand against the little ones. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8In the whole land-- this is the LORD's declaration-- two-thirds will be cut off and die, but a third will be left in it. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9I will put this third through the fire; I will refine them as silver is refined and test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say: They are My people, and they will say: Yahweh is our God." |
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