7. “Awake, O sword, against my shepherd,the man who is my partner,”says the lord of Heaven’s Armies.“Strike down the shepherd,and the sheep will be scattered,and I will turn against the lambs.
8. Two-thirds of the people in the landwill be cut off and die,” says the lord.“But one-third will be left in the land.
9. I will bring that group through the fireand make them pure.I will refine them like silverand purify them like gold.They will call on my name,and I will answer them.I will say, ‘These are my people,’and they will say, ‘The lord is our God.’”