Zechariah 13:2-9 ▼

2 And it will come to pass on that day, a declaration of YHWH of Hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will not be remembered anymore; and also the prophets and the spirit of impurity I will make pass from the land.

3 And it will come to pass, if a man prophesies still, that his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ‘You will not live, for you have spoken deception in the name of YHWH.’ And his father and mother who bore him will pierce him through at his prophesying.

4 And it will come to pass in that day, that will feel shame the prophets, each man from his vision, in his prophesying; and they will not clothe themselves with a cloak of hair in order to deceive.

5 And he will say, ‘I am not a prophet; I am a farmer working the land, for a man acquired me in my youth.

6 And if it is said to him, ‘What are these wounds between your hands?’ He will answer, ‘Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.’

7 O Sword, awake against My shepherd, and against a man, My companion, a declaration of YHWH of hosts. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn My hand against the little ones!

8 And it will come to pass, in all the land, a declaration of YHWH, a measure that two in it will be cut off and die, and the third will remain in it.

9 And I will bring the third through the fire, and I will refine them like the refining of silver, and I will test them like the testing of gold. He will call on my name, and I will answer him. I will say, ‘It is My people,’ and he will say, ‘YHWH is My God.’”