1 "On that day a fountain  * will be opened for the house of David and for the residents of Jerusalem, to wash away sin and impurity.  *2 On that day" — this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies — "I will remove the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered.  * I will banish the prophets  * and the unclean spirit from the land. 3 If a man still prophesies, his father and his mother who bore him will say to him, ‘You cannot remain alive because you have spoken a lie in the name of the Lord.’ When he prophesies, his father and his mother who bore him will pierce him through.  *4 On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; they will not put on a hairy cloak  * in order to deceive. 5 He will say, ‘I am not a prophet; I work the land, for a man purchased  * me as a servant since my youth.’  *6 If someone asks him, ‘What are these wounds  * on your chest?’  *  — then he will answer, ‘I received the wounds in the house of my friends.’

7 Sword, awake against my shepherd,

against the man who is my associate —

this is the declaration of the  Lord of Armies.

Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered;  *

I will turn my hand against the little ones.

8 In the whole land —

this is the  Lord’s declaration —

two-thirds  * will be cut off and die,

but a third will be left in it.

9 I will put this third through the fire;

I will refine them as silver is refined

and test them as gold is tested.  *

They will call on my name,

and I will answer them.  *

I will say, ‘They are my people,’

and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’ "  *