Zec 13 | LEB | STEP | “ ‘On that day a well will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, ⌞to cleanse them from sin and from impurity⌟ .

Zechariah 13

1 “ ‘On that day a well will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, ⌞to cleanse them from sin and from impurity⌟. ^{▼▼Literally “for sin and for impurity”} 2 ⌞And then⌟, ^{▼▼Literally “And it will happen”} on that day,’ ⌞declares⌟ ^{▼▼Literally “declaration of”} Yahweh of hosts, ‘I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and also the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness I will banish from the land. 3 ⌞And then⌟, ^{▼▼Literally “And it will happen”} if anyone prophesies again, his father and his mother who bore him will say to him, “You shall not live, because you have spoken a lie in the name of Yahweh!” And his father and his mother who bore him will pierce him through when he prophesies. 4 ⌞And then⌟ ^{▼▼Literally “And it will happen”} on that day, each of the prophets will be ashamed because of his vision when he was prophesying, and they will not put on a cloak of hair in order to deceive, 5 but he will say, “I am not a prophet; I am a tiller of the soil, for a man has acquired me since my youth.” ^{▼▼Other translations read “for the land has been my possession since my youth”} 6 And someone ^{▼▼Hebrew “he”} shall say to him, “What are these wounds ⌞between your arms⌟?” ^{▼▼Literally “between your hands”; that is, on the chest or on the back} and he will say, “Those I have received ^{▼▼Hebrew “have been struck”} in the house of the ones who love me.” ’ ”

The Sword Shall Strike the Shepherd

7 “O sword, awake against my shepherd,
against the man who is my associate,”
⌞declares⌟ ^{▼▼Literally “declaration of”} Yahweh of hosts.
“Strike the shepherd,
so that the sheep ^{▼▼Or “flock”; the Hebrew term refers collectively to both sheep and goats (small livestock animals)} may be scattered,
and I will turn my hand against the small ones.
8 ⌞And then⌟ ^{▼▼Literally “And it will happen”} in all the land,” ⌞declares⌟ ^{▼▼Literally “declaration of”} Yahweh,
“⌞two thirds⌟ ^{▼▼Literally “a mouth of two”} will be cut off and perish,
and one third will be left alive ^{▼▼Hebrew “left over”} in it.
9 And I will bring the remaining third into the fire,
and I will refine them like one refines silver,
and I will test them like one tests gold.
They ^{▼▼Hebrew “He”} will call my name,
and I will answer them. ^{▼▼Hebrew “him”}
I will say, ‘They ^{▼▼Hebrew “He”} are my people,’
and they ^{▼▼Hebrew “he”} will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”