An End to Idolatry 1In that day shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for putting away. 2And it was in that day, says Jehovah of armies, I will cut off the names of the images from the land, and they shall be remembered no more: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land. 3And it was if a man shall yet prophesy, and his father and his mother who begat him, said to him, Thou shalt not live, for thou spakest falsehood in the name of Jehovah: and his father and his mother begetting him thrust him through in his prophesying. 4And it was in that day the prophets shall be ashamed, each of his vision, in his prophesying; and they shall not put on a mantle of hair to speak lies: 5And saying, I am not a prophet; I a man working the land; for man sold me from my youth. 6And saying to him, What these wounds between thy hands? And he said, Which I was struck in the house of those loving me. The Shepherd Struck, the Sheep Scattered 7O sword, be raised up against my shepherd, and against the man of my fellowship, says Jehovah of armies: strike the shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered; and I turned back my hand upon the little ones. 8And it was in all the land, says Jehovah, two parts in it shall be cut off, they shall expire; and the third shall be left in it. 9And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God. The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. Smith Section Headings Courtesy Berean Bible |