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Jerusalem Refined and Tested

¹ "In 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)impurity.

² "And it will be in that day," declares Yahweh of hosts, "that I will ^(C1)cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and I will also cause the ^(C2)prophets and the ^(C3)unclean spirit to pass away from the land.³ "And it will be that if anyone still ^(C1)prophesies, then his father and mother who gave birth to him will say to him, 'You shall ^(C2)not live, for you have spoken ^(C3)falsely in the name of Yahweh'; and his ^(C4)father and mother who gave birth to him will pierce him through when he prophesies.⁴ "And it will be in 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 mantle in order to deceive;⁵ but he will say, 'I am ^(C1)not a prophet; I am a cultivator of the ground, for a man ^(F1)sold me as a slave in my youth.'⁶ "And one will say to him, 'What are these wounds struck here ^(C1)between your ^(F1)arms?' Then he will say, 'Those with which I was struck in the house of ^(F2)my friends.'

⁷ "Awake, O ^(C1)sword, against My ^(C2)Shepherd
And against the man, My ^(C3)Associate,"
Declares Yahweh of hosts.
"^(C4)Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered;
And I will ^(C5)turn My hand ^(F1)against the little ones.

⁸ "And it will be in all the land,"
Declares Yahweh,
"That ^(C1)two parts in it will be cut off and breathe their last;
But the third will be left in it.

⁹ "And I will bring the third part through the ^(C1)fire
And refine them as silver is refined
And test them as gold is tested.
^(F1)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, 'Yahweh is my God.'"