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⁹And it shall come to pass in that day,

That I will seek to destroy all the nations

That come against Jerusalem.

¹⁰And I will pour upon the house of David,

And upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

The spirit of grace and of supplication;

And they shall look unto Me because ^[1]they have thrust him through;

And they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son,

And shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first-born.

¹¹In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem,

As the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.

¹²And the land shall mourn, every family apart:

The family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart;

The family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

¹³The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart;

The family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart;

¹⁴All the families that remain,

Every family apart, and their wives apart.

13In that day there shall be a fountain opened

To the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

For purification and for sprinkling.

²And it shall come to pass in that day,

Saith the Lord of hosts,

That I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land,

And they shall no more be remembered;

And also I will cause the prophets

And the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

³And it shall come to pass that, when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begot him shall say unto him: 'Thou shalt not live, for thou speakest lies in the name of the Lord'; and his father and his mother that begot him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth. ⁴And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be brought to shame every one through his vision, when he prophesieth; neither shall they wear a hairy mantle to deceive; ⁵but he shall say: 'I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondman from my youth.' ⁶And one shall say unto him: 'What are these wounds between thy hands?' Then he shall answer: 'Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.'

⁷Awake, O sword, against My shepherd,

And against the man that is near unto Me,

Saith the Lord of hosts;

Smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered;

And I will turn My hand upon the little ones.

⁸And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord,

Two parts therein shall be cut off and die;

But the third shall be left therein.

⁹And I will bring the third part through the fire,

And will refine them as silver is refined,

And will try them as gold is tried;

They shall call on My name,

And I will answer them;

I will say: 'It is My people',

1. That is, the nations. See verse 9.

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