New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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1 On that day a fountain shall be opened for the line of David and for
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to remove all sin and impurity.
2 On that day, says the Lord of Hosts, I will erase the names of the
idols from the land, and they shall be remembered no longer; I will also
remove the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness from the land.
3 Thereafter,
if a man continues to prophesy, his parents, his own father and
mother, will say to him, ‘You shall live no longer, for you have spoken
falsely in the name of the Lord.’ His own father and mother will pierce
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Jerusalem a centre of worship for all men
him through because he has prophesied.
4 On that day every prophet shall
be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies, nor shall he wear a robe of
coarse hair in order to deceive.
5 He will say, ‘I am no prophet, I am a
tiller of the soil who has been schooled in lust from boyhood.’
6 ‘What’,
someone will ask, ‘are these scars on your chest?’ And he will answer,
‘I got them in the house of my lovers.’ note
New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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