Jerusalem Refined and Tested
“In that day a afountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for bsin and for cimpurity.
2 “And it will be in that day,” declares Yahweh of hosts, “that I will acut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and I will also cause the bprophets and the cunclean spirit to pass away from the land. 3 And it will be that if anyone still aprophesies, then his father and mother who gave birth to him will say to him, ‘You shall bnot live, for you have spoken cfalsely in the name of Yahweh’; and his dfather and mother who gave birth to him will pierce him through when he prophesies. 4 And it will be in that day, that the prophets will each be aashamed of his vision when he prophesies, and they will not put on a bhairy mantle in order to deceive; 5 but he will say, ‘I am anot a prophet; I am a cultivator of the ground, for a man sold me as a slave in my youth.’ 6 And one will say to him, ‘What are these wounds struck here abetween your arms?’ Then he will say, ‘Those with which I was struck in the house of my friends.’
7 “Awake, O asword, against My bShepherd
And against the man, My cAssociate,”
Declares Yahweh of hosts.
“dStrike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered;
And I will eturn My hand against the little ones.
8 And it will be in all the land,”
Declares Yahweh,
“That atwo parts in it will be cut off and breathe their last;
But the third will be left in it.
9 And I will bring the third part through the afire
And refine them as silver is refined
And test them as gold is tested.
They will bcall on My name,
And I will canswer them;
I will say, ‘They are dMy people,’
And they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’”