Dios purificará a su pueblo
1-3 »Ese día yo perdonaré a mi pueblo. Los descendientes de David y los habitantes de Jerusalén siempre encontrarán perdón en mí. Borraré de la tierra a todos los ídolos, y nunca más serán recordados. Acabaré también con sus profetas, que hablaban guiados por malos espíritus. Cuando alguien quiera engañarlos, diciendo que habla de mi parte, sus propios padres lo condenarán a morir, y ellos mismos lo matarán. Yo soy el Dios todopoderoso, y juro que así se hará.
4-5 »Ese día los profetas se avergonzarán de haber anunciado mensajes falsos, y nunca más volverán a engañar a otros. En vez de llamarse profetas, dirán que son campesinos y que desde jóvenes han cultivado la tierra. 6 Y si alguien les pregunta por las cicatrices que tienen en las manos, dirán que se cortaron en casa de unos amigos, y no en los cultos de dioses extraños».
Castigo y perdón
7 El Dios todopoderoso afirma:
«¡Despiértate, espada,
y mata a mi rey escogido!
¡Mata a mi mejor amigo!
Así mi pueblo se dispersará
y yo acabaré con sus descendientes.
8-9 »De la gente de este país
morirán dos terceras partes,
y el resto quedará con vida;
pero los castigaré para hacerlos cambiar,
y volverán a obedecerme.
Yo soy el Dios de Israel,
y juro que así será.
»Cuando me llamen, les responderé;
yo los reconoceré como mi pueblo,
y ellos me reconocerán como su Dios».
1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.
2 ¶ And 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. 3 And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat 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 begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth. 4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive: 5 But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth. 6 And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.
7 ¶ Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones. 8 And 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. 9 And 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 hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.