1 In die dag sal daar 'n geopende fontein wees vir die huis van Dawid en vir die inwoners van Jerusalem teen sonde en onreinheid.
2 En in die dag, spreek die HERE van die leërskare, sal Ek die name van die afgode uit die land uitroei, sodat aan hulle nie meer gedink sal word nie; en ook die profete en die onreine gees sal Ek uit die land laat wegtrek.
3 En as iemand nog wil profeteer, sal sy vader en sy moeder wat hom verwek het, vir hom sê: Jy mag nie langer lewe nie, want jy het leuens in die Naam van die HERE verkondig; en sy vader en sy moeder wat hom verwek het, sal hom deurboor as hy wil profeteer.
4 En in die dag sal elkeen van die profete, as hy profeteer, hom skaam oor sy gesig; en hulle sal die harige mantel nie aantrek om te lieg nie.
5 Maar hy sal sê: Ek is geen profeet nie, ek is 'n man wat die grond bewerk; want iemand het my van my jeug af as slaaf gekoop.
6 En as iemand vir hom sê: Watter wonde is daardie tussen jou hande? dan sal hy antwoord: So is ek geslaan in die huis van my vriende.
7 Ontwaak, o swaard, teen my herder, en teen die man wat my metgesel is! spreek die HERE van die leërskare. Slaan die herder, sodat die skape verstrooi word; en Ek sal my hand weer uitstrek oor die geringes.
8 En in die ganse land, spreek die HERE -- twee-derdes sal daarin uitgeroei word, sal sterwe, maar een-derde daarin oorbly.
9 Dan sal Ek die derde deel in die vuur bring en hulle smelt soos 'n mens silwer smelt en hulle toets soos 'n mens goud toets. Hulle sal my Naam aanroep, en Ek sal hulle verhoor. Ek sê: Dit is my volk! En hulle sal sê: Die HERE, my God!
1 In that day there will be a fountain open to the family of David and to the people of Jerusalem, for sin and for that which is unclean.
2 And it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that I will have the names of the images cut off out of the land, and there will be no more memory of them: and I will send all the prophets and the unclean spirit away from the land.
3 And if anyone goes on acting as a prophet, then his father and his mother who gave him life will say to him, You may not go on living, for you are saying what is false in the name of the Lord; and his father and his mother will put a sword through him when he does so.
4 And it will come about in that day that the prophets will be shamed, every man on account of his vision, when he is talking as a prophet; and they will not put on a robe of hair for purposes of deceit:
5 But he will say, I am no prophet, but a worker on the land; for I have been an owner of land from the time when I was young.
6 And if anyone says to him, What are these wounds between your hands? then he will say, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.
7 Awake! O sword, against the keeper of my flock, and against him who is with me, says the Lord of armies: put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep will go in flight: and my hand will be turned against the little ones.
8 And it will come about that in all the land, says the Lord, two parts of it will be cut off and come to an end; but the third will be still living there.
9 And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.