Old Testament · Zechariah

Zechariah 13

An End to Idolatry

1In that day there shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for impurity. 2And it shall come to pass in that day, declares the LORD of hosts^a, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they shall no longer be remembered; and also the prophets and the spirit^b of impurity I will cause to pass from the land.

3And it shall come to pass, when a man^c prophesies again, that his father and his mother who bore him shall say to him: You shall not live, for you have spoken falsehood in the name of the LORD; and his father and his mother who bore him shall pierce him through when he prophesies.

4And it shall come to pass in that day, the prophets shall be ashamed, each man of his vision when he prophesies; and they shall not wear a hairy mantle in order to deceive. 5And he shall say: I am no prophet; I am a man, one who works^d the ground^e; for a man^f acquired me from my youth. 6And one shall say to him: What are these wounds between your hands? And he shall say: Those with which I was struck in the house of my lovers.

The Shepherd Struck, the Sheep Scattered

(Matthew 26:31–35; Mark 14:27–31)

7O sword, awake against my shepherd, and against the man, my companion, declares the LORD of hosts; strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered; and I will turn my hand upon the little ones.
8And it shall come to pass in all the land, declares the LORD, two portions in it shall be cut off and perish, but the third shall be left in it.
9And I will bring the third through the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as one tests gold. He shall call on my name, and I will answer him. I will say: He is my people; and he shall say: the LORD is my God.