Zechariah 13:1-9

  • God go wipe the idols and lie-lie prophets comot (1-6)

    • Lie-lie prophets come shame (4-6)

  • Them go attack the shepherd (7-9)

    • Them go make the third part clean (9)

13  “For that day, them go open one well give the family of David and the people wey de live for Jerusalem so that them go use-am clean their sins and their dirty. 2  “For that day,” na so Jehovah of armies talk, “I go wipe the names of the idols from the land and them no go remember them again. I go comot the prophets and the spirit wey no clean from the land. 3  And if any man talk again about wetin go happen for future, im papa and im mama wey born-am go tell-am say, ‘You go die, because you don use Jehovah name talk lie-lie things.’ And im papa and im mama wey born-am go chuk-am enter because say e de talk wetin go happen for future. 4  “For that day when each of the prophets de talk wetin go happen for future, im vision go de make-am shame and them no go wear the cloth wey prophets de wear wey them use hair make, wey them de use deceive people. 5  And e go talk say, ‘I no be prophet. I be person wey de do farm work, because one man buy me when I dey young.’ 6  And if somebody ask-am say, ‘Which wounds be this wey dey your body?’* E go talk say, ‘Na wounds wey I get when I dey the house of my friends.’”*  7  “O sword, wake up make you attack my shepherd,Attack the man wey be my friend,” na so Jehovah of armies talk. “Attack the shepherd, make the sheep scatter;And I go turn my hand against the people wey no reach anything.”  8  Jehovah talk say, “When them divide the whole land to three parts,Them go destroy two parts and them go die,But them go leave the third part for the land.  9  And I go make the third part pass through fire;I go clean them the way them de clean silver,I go test them the way them de test gold. Them go call my name,And I go answer them. I go talk say, ‘Them be my people,’ And them go talk say, ‘Jehovah na our God.’”

Footnotes

^ For Hebrew na, “wey dey between your hands?” This one na, wounds wey dey im chest or im back.
^ Or “house of people wey love me.”