| New International Version | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1"On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity. | 1On 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, I will banish the names of the idols from the land, and they will be remembered no more," declares the LORD Almighty. "I will remove both the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land. | 2On that day"--this is the declaration of the LORD of Hosts--"I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land. |
| 3And if anyone still prophesies, their father and mother, to whom they were born, will say to them, 'You must die, because you have told lies in the LORD's name.' Then their own parents will stab the one who prophesies. | 3If a man still prophesies, his father and his mother who bore him will say to him: You cannot remain alive because you have spoken falsely in the name of Yahweh. 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 their prophetic vision. They will not put on a prophet's garment of hair in order to deceive. | 4On 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. |
| 5Each will say, 'I am not a prophet. I am a farmer; the land has been my livelihood since my youth.' | 5He will say: I am not a prophet; I work the land, for a man purchased me as a servant since my youth. |
| 6If someone asks, 'What are these wounds on your body?' they will answer, 'The wounds I was given at the house of my friends.' | 6If 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"Awake, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is close to me!" declares the LORD Almighty. "Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn my hand against the little ones. | 7Sword, awake against My shepherd, against the man who is My associate-- this is the declaration of the LORD of Hosts. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; I will also turn My hand against the little ones. |
| 8In the whole land," declares the LORD, "two-thirds will be struck down and perish; yet one-third will be left in it. | 8In 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. |
| 9This third I will put into the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. 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.'" | 9I 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: Yahweh is our God." |
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