Zech 13
1
In that day every place shall be opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants
of Jerusalem for removal and for Or, departure separation.
2
And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord of hosts, that I will utterly
destroy the names of the idols from off the land, and there shall be no longer any
remembrance of them: and I will cut off the false prophets and the evil spirit from
the land.
3
And it shall come to pass, if a man will yet prophesy, that his father and his mother
which gave birth to him shall say to him, You shall not live; for you has spoken lies
in the name of the Lord: and his father and his mother who gave him birth shall bind
him as he is prophesying.
4
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one
of his vision when he prophesies; and they shall clothe themselves with a garment
of hair, because they have lied.
5
And one shall say, I am not a prophet, for I am a tiller of the ground, for a man
brought me up thus from my youth.
6
And I will say to him, What are these wounds between your hands? and he shall say,
Those with which I was wounded in Alex. the house of my beloved my beloved house.
7
Awake, O sword, against my Alex. shepherd shepherds, and against the man who is my citizen, says the Lord Almighty: Mt 26:31
smite the shepherds, and draw out the sheep: and I will bring mine hand upon the
little ones.
8
And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, says the Lord, two parts thereof
shall be cut off and perish; but the third shall be left therein.
9
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and I will try them as silver is
tried, and I will prove them as gold is proved: they shall call upon my name, and
I will hear them, and say, This is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.