2"And on that day, says Yahweh of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more; and also I will remove from the land the prophets and the unclean spirit. 3And if any one again appears as a prophet, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, 'You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of Yahweh'; and his father and mother who bore him shall pierce him through when he prophesies. 4On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; he will not put on a hairy mantle in order to deceive, 5but he will say, 'I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the soil; for the land has been my possession since my youth.' 6And if one asks him, 'What are these wounds on your back?' he will say, 'The wounds I received in the house of my friends.' "
7"Awake, O sword, against my shepherd,
against the man who stands next to me,"
says Yahweh of hosts.
"Strike the shepherd, that the sheep may be scattered;
I will turn my hand against the little ones.
8In the whole land, says Yahweh,
two thirds shall be cut off and perish,
and one third shall be left alive.
9And I will put this third into the fire,
and refine them as one refines silver,
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 my God.' "
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