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"On that day a ^(C1)fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for ^(C2)sin and for ^(C3)defilement.

"And it will come about on that day," declares the LORD of armies, "that I will ^(C1)eliminate the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and I will also remove the ^(C2)prophets and the ^(C3)unclean spirit from the land.

"And if anyone still ^(C1)prophesies, then his father and mother who gave birth to him will say to him, 'You shall ^(C2)not live, because you have spoken ^(C3)falsely in the name of the LORD'; and his ^(C4)father and mother who gave birth to him shall pierce him through when he prophesies.

"Also it will come about on that day that the prophets will each be ^(C1)ashamed of his vision when he prophesies, and they will not put on a ^(C2)hairy robe in order to deceive;

but he will say, 'I am ^(C1)not a prophet; I am a cultivator of the ground, because a man ^(F1)sold me as a slave in my youth.'

"And someone will say to him, 'What are these wounds ^(C1)between your ^(F1)arms?' Then he will say, 'Those with which I was wounded at the house of ^(F2)my friends.'

"Awake, ^(C1)sword, against My ^(C2)Shepherd, And against the Man, My ^(C3)Associate," Declares the LORD of armies. "^(C4)Strike the Shepherd and the sheep will be scattered; And I will ^(C5)turn My hand ^(F1)against the little ones.

-"And it will come about in all the land," Declares the LORD, "That ^(C1)two parts in it will be cut off and perish; But the third will be left in it.

-"And I will bring the third part through the ^(C1)fire, Refine them as silver is refined, And test them as gold is tested. They will ^(C2)call on My name, And I will ^(C3)answer them; I will say, 'They are ^(C4)My people,' And they will say, 'The LORD is my God.'"