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v1
“‘On that day a well will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and from impurity. ^[Literally “for sin and for impurity”]
v2
And then, ^[Literally “And it will happen”] on that day,’ declares ^[Literally “declaration of”] Yahweh of hosts, ‘I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and also the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness I will banish from the land.
v3
And then, ^[Literally “And it will happen”] if anyone prophesies again, his father and his mother who bore him will say to him, “You shall not live, because you have spoken a lie in the name of Yahweh!” And his father and his mother who bore him will pierce him through when he prophesies.
v4
And then ^[Literally “And it will happen”] on that day, each of the prophets will be ashamed because of his vision when he was prophesying, and they will not put on a cloak of hair in order to deceive,
v5
but he will say, “I am not a prophet; I am a tiller of the soil, for a man has acquired me since my youth.” ^[Other translations read “for the land has been my possession since my youth”]
v6
And someone ^[Hebrew “he”] shall say to him, “What are these wounds between your arms?” ^[Literally “between your hands”; that is, on the chest or on the back] and he will say, “Those I have received ^[Hebrew “have been struck”] in the house of the ones who love me.”‘“
v7
“O sword, awake against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate,” declares ^[Literally “declaration of”] Yahweh of hosts. “Strike the shepherd, so that the sheep ^[Or “flock”; the Hebrew term refers collectively to both sheep and goats (small livestock animals)] may be scattered, and I will turn my hand against the small ones.
v8
And then ^[Literally “And it will happen”] in all the land,” declares ^[Literally “declaration of”] Yahweh, “two thirds ^[Literally “a mouth of two”] will be cut off and perish, and one third will be left alive ^[Hebrew “left over”] in it.
v9
And I will bring the remaining third into the fire, and I will refine them like one refines silver, and I will test them like one tests gold. They ^[Hebrew “He”] will call my name, and I will answer them. ^[Hebrew “him”] I will say, ‘They ^[Hebrew “He”] are my people,’ and they ^[Hebrew “he”] will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.‘”