False Prophets Ashamed
13 “On that day a (A)fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for (B)sin and for (C)defilement.
2 “And it will come about on that day,” declares the Lord of armies, “that I will (D)eliminate the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and I will also remove the (E)prophets and the (F)unclean spirit from the land. 3 And if anyone still (G)prophesies, then his father and mother who gave birth to him will say to him, ‘You shall (H)not live, because you have spoken (I)falsely in the name of the Lord’; and his (J)father and mother who gave birth to him shall pierce him through when he prophesies. 4 Also it will come about on that day that the prophets will each be (K)ashamed of his vision when he prophesies, and they will not put on a (L)hairy robe in order to deceive; 5 but he will say, ‘I am (M)not a prophet; I am a cultivator of the ground, because a man sold me as a slave in my youth.’ 6 And someone will say to him, ‘What are these wounds (N)between your arms?’ Then he will say, ‘Those with which I was wounded at the house of my friends.’
7 “Awake, (O)sword, against My (P)Shepherd,
And against the Man, My (Q)Associate,”
Declares the Lord of armies.
“(R)Strike the Shepherd and the sheep will be scattered;
And I will (S)turn My hand against the little ones.
8 And it will come about in all the land,”
Declares the Lord,
“That (T)two parts in it will be cut off and perish;
But the third will be left in it.
9 And I will bring the third part through the (U)fire,
Refine them as silver is refined,
And test them as gold is tested.
They will (V)call on My name,
And I will (W)answer them;
I will say, ‘They are (X)My people,’
And they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”
Footnotes
- Zechariah 13:5
- Zechariah 13:6
- Zechariah 13:6
- Zechariah 13:7
Cross references
- Zechariah 13:1 : Jer 2:13; 17:13
- Zechariah 13:1 : Ps 51:2, 7; Is 1:16-18; John 1:29
- Zechariah 13:1 : Num 19:17; Is 4:4; Ezek 36:25
- Zechariah 13:2 : Ex 23:13; Hos 2:17
- Zechariah 13:2 : Jer 23:14, 15
- Zechariah 13:2 : 1 Kin 22:22; Ezek 36:25, 29
- Zechariah 13:3 : Jer 23:34
- Zechariah 13:3 : Deut 18:20; Ezek 14:9
- Zechariah 13:3 : Jer 23:25
- Zechariah 13:3 : Deut 13:6-11; Matt 10:37
- Zechariah 13:4 : Jer 6:15; 8:9; Mic 3:7
- Zechariah 13:4 : 2 Kin 1:8; Is 20:2; Matt 3:4
- Zechariah 13:5 : Amos 7:14
- Zechariah 13:6 : 2 Kin 9:24
- Zechariah 13:7 : Jer 47:6; Ezek 21:3-5
- Zechariah 13:7 : Is 40:11; Ezek 34:23, 24; 37:24; Mic 5:2, 4
- Zechariah 13:7 : Ps 2:2; Jer 23:5, 6
- Zechariah 13:7 : Is 53:4, 5, 10; Matt 26:31; Mark 14:27
- Zechariah 13:7 : Is 1:25
- Zechariah 13:8 : Is 6:13; Ezek 5:2-4, 12
- Zechariah 13:9 : Is 48:10; Mal 3:3
- Zechariah 13:9 : Ps 34:15-17; 50:15; Zech 12:10
- Zechariah 13:9 : Is 58:9; 65:24; Jer 29:11-13; Zech 10:6
- Zechariah 13:9 : Hos 2:23
