Zechariah 13

New American Standard Bible 1995

False Prophets Ashamed

13 “In that day a ^(A)fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for ^(B)sin and for ^(C)impurity.

² “It will come about in that day,” declares the Lord of hosts, “that I will ^(D)cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and I will also remove the ^(E)prophets and the ^(F)unclean spirit from the land. ³ And if anyone still ^(G)prophesies, then his father and mother who gave birth to him will say to him, ‘You shall ^(H)not live, for you have spoken ^(I)falsely in the name of the Lord’; and his ^(J)father and mother who gave birth to him will pierce him through when he prophesies. ⁴ Also it will come about in that day that the prophets will each be ^(K)ashamed of his vision when he prophesies, and they will not put on a ^(L)hairy robe in order to deceive; ⁵ but he will say, ‘I am ^(M)not a prophet; I am a tiller of the ground, for a man ^[a]sold me as a slave in my youth.’ ⁶ And one will say to him, ‘What are these wounds ^(N)between your ^[b]arms?’ Then he will say, ‘Those with which I was wounded in the house of ^[c]my friends.’