CHAPTER 13

1 In that day shall a fountain be opened To the house of David And to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, For expiation and for sprinkling.

2 And it shall be in that day, saith Jehovah, That I will cut off the names of idols from the land, And they shall be remembered no more; And the prophets also and the unclean spirit Will I exterminate from the land.

3 And it shall be, when prophesy yet shall any one, That say to him will his gather and his mother, Who begat him, “Thou shalt not live, For a lie hast thou spoken in Jehovah’s name;” And they shall pierce him, Even his father and his mother who begat him; Because he had prophesied.

4 It shall also be in that day That ashamed shall be the prophets, Every on of his vision, when he has prophesied; And they shall not wear a hairy garment, That they may deceive:

5 But he shall say, “I am not a prophet, A husbandman am I, for man has taught me To be a shepherd from my youth.”

6 When one shall say to him, “Why are these wounds in thine hands?” Then he will say, “Because I have been stricken In the house of my friends.” (393)

7 O sword! awake against my shepherd, And against the man, my associate, Saith Jehovah of hosts: Smite the shepherd, and scattered shall be the sheep; And I will turn my hand to the little ones.

8 And it shall be in all the land, saith Jehovah, That two parts in it shall be cut off — shall die, And that the third shall remain in it:

9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, And will melt them as silver is melted, And try them as gold is tried; They shall call on my name and I will answer them; I will say, “My people are the;” And they will say, “Jehovah is out God.”