6 If someone asks, “What are these wounds on your arms?” he will say, “I was struck in the house of my close friends.”
7 “Awake, O sword, against My shepherdand the man of My association,”says the Lord of Hosts.Strike the shepherd,and the sheep will scatter.I will turn My hand against the small ones.
8 And it will happen in all the land, says the Lord,that two-thirds will be cut off and die,and one-third will be left in the land.
9 And I will bring this one-third left into the fire,and will refine them as the refinement of silver,and will test them as the testing of gold.They will call on My name,and I will answer them.I will say, “They are My people”;and they will say, “The Lord is my God.”