Moff ZEC Chapter 13

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Up, sword, against my shepherd,

against my high priest!

(’tis a summons from the Lord of hosts).

I will strike the shepherd,

till the sheep are scattered,

even against the little ones I turn my hand.

For all over the land,

the Lord of hosts declares,

two-thirds shall perish,

but one-third shall be left;

and this third I will pass through fire,

smelting them like silver,

testing them like gold,

till they call to me,

and then I listen;

I will say, ‘They are my people’--

they shall cry, ‘The Eternal, my God!’ ” * * *

12 The oracle of the Eternal’s word on Israel, an oracle of the Eternal who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him.

2 “I will make Jerusalem a cup that sends the nations reeling away from it. Jerusalem shall be besieged, 3 but on that day I will make Jerusalem an awkward boulder for the nations to lift; any who shoulder it hurt themselves—yes, and all the nations shall be gathered to attack it. 4 On that day, the Eternal declares, I will strike panic into all the horses and frenzy into all their riders; as for the house of Judah, I will open its eyes, but I will strike every horse of the nations blind. 5 Then shall the clans of Judah say to themselves, ‘The strength of the dwellers in Jerusalem lies in the Lord of hosts, their God’ 6 On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pan in a forest, or like a fiery torch among sheaves; they shall consume all the surrounding nations, to right and to left of them, but Jerusalem shall still remain on its own site. 7 The Eternal will give the victory first to the tents of Judah, so that the fame of David’s house and the fame of the dwellers in Jerusalem may not be exalted over Judah. 8 On that day shall the Eternal protect the dwellers in Jerusalem; even the lame among them on that day shall be like David himself, and David’s house shall be like God himself, like the angel of the Eternal who is their leader. 9 On that day I will set myself to destroy all the nations that attack Jerusalem, 10 but I will io pour out a spirit of yearning and entreaty upon David’s house and the dwellers in Jerusalem; they shall look at him whom they stabbed and lament for him bitterly, as a man laments for his only son; bitter shall be their grief for him, as bitter as a man’s grief for his first-born child. 11 On that day the lamenting in Jerusalem shall be as mournful as the lamenting for Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo; 12 the land shall lament, each family by itself, the family of David’s house apart and their wives apart, the family of Nathan’s house apart and their wives apart, 13 the family of Levi’s house apart and their wives apart, the family of the Shimeites apart and their wives apart, 14 and all the other families who are left, each apart and their wives apart.

13 On that day a fountain shall be opened for David’s house and the dwellers in Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity. 2 And on that day (the Lord of hosts declares), I will wipe out the names of idols from the land, till they are no more remembered; I will expel the prophets and the spirit of impurity, from the land. 3 (If anyone still prophesies, then his father and the mother who bore him shall tell him, “You must die, for in the name of the Eternal you are speaking lies”; whereupon his father and the mother who bore him shall stab him as he prophesies.) 4 On that day every prophet shall be ashamed of his vision as he prophesies; he will not wear the leather mantle and deceive people; 5 he will say, “I am no prophet, I am a peasant, the land has been my business from my youth.” 6 When he is asked, “Then what are these scars on your hands?” he will answer, “I got these in my harlot’s house.” * * *

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