Zechariah 13:9

And I will test the ones that remain alive by causing them to experience great difficulties, to find out if they will continue to worship me. I will purify them like [MET] a man purifies gold or silver by putting it into a very hot fire. Then my people will call to me [MTY] for help, and I will answer them. I will say to them, ‘You are my people,’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is our God.’”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

8Yahweh also says, “Two-thirds of the people in Judah will die [DOU]. Only one-third of the people in Judah will remain alive.

Read all of Zechariah 13

Cross References

Leviticus 26:12I will walk among you and continue to be your God, and you will continue to be my people.

Deuteronomy 26:17Today you have declared that Yahweh is your God, and that you will conduct your lives as he wants you to do, and that you will obey all his commands and rules and regulations, and that you will do all that he tells you to do.

Job 23:10But he knows how I have conducted my life; and when he has finished testing me, he will see that I am as pure as [SIM] gold whose impurities have all been burned out.

Psalms 34:15Yahweh [MTY] carefully watches over those who act righteously; he always responds [MTY] to them when they call to him for help.

Psalms 50:15And pray to me when you have troubles. If you do that, I will rescue you, and then you will praise me.

Psalms 91:15When they call out to me, I will answer them. I will help them when they are experiencing trouble; I will rescue them and honor them.

Matthew Henry on Zechariah 13:8-9

Sufferings of Christ Predicted. ( b. c. 500.) 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… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Zechariah 13:9