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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"On that day, I will banish the names of the idols from the land, and they will be remembered no more," declares the LORD Almighty. "I will remove both the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3And if anyone still prophesies, their father and mother, to whom they were born, will say to them, 'You must die, because you have told lies in the LORD's name.' Then their own parents will stab the one who prophesies. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"On that day every prophet will be ashamed of their prophetic vision. They will not put on a prophet's garment of hair in order to deceive. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Each will say, 'I am not a prophet. I am a farmer; the land has been my livelihood since my youth.' |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6If someone asks, 'What are these wounds on your body?' they will answer, 'The wounds I was given at the house of my friends.' |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"Awake, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is close to me!" declares the LORD Almighty. "Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn my hand against the little ones. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8In the whole land," declares the LORD, "two-thirds will be struck down and perish; yet one-third will be left in it. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9This third I will put into the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on my name and I will answer them; I will say, 'They are my people,' and they will say, 'The LORD is our God.'" |
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