35 lines
1.6 KiB
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35 lines
1.6 KiB
Markdown
God's People Cleansed
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# Chapter 13
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1. "On that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the residents of Jerusalem, to wash away sin and impurity.
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2. On that day"--
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this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies--"I will remove the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will banish the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.
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3. If a man still prophesies, his father and his mother who bore him will say to him, 'You cannot remain alive because you have spoken a lie in the name of the Lord.' When he prophesies, his father and his mother who bore him will pierce him through.
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4. On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; they will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive.
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5. He will say, 'I am not a prophet; I work the land, for a man purchased me as a servant since my youth.'
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6. If someone asks him, 'What are these wounds on your chest?'--then he will answer, 'I received the wounds in the house of my friends.'
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7. Sword, awake against my shepherd,
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against the man who is my associate--
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this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies.
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Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered;
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I will turn my hand against the little ones.
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8. In the whole land--
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this is the Lord's declaration--
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two-thirds will be cut off and die,
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but a third will be left in it.
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9. I will put this third through the fire;
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I will refine them as silver is refined
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and test them as gold is tested.
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They will call on my name,
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and I will answer them.
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I will say, 'They are my people,'
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and they will say, 'The Lord is our God.'"
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