5 ^aBut he will say, ‘I am no prophet, I am a farmer; for a man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.’  ‡

6 And one will say to him, ‘What are these wounds between your¹ arms?’ Then he will answer, ‘Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.’ ‡

8 And it shall come to pass in all the land,”
Says the Lord,
“That ^atwo-thirds in it shall be cut off and die,
^bBut one–third shall be left in it: ‡

9 I will bring the one–third ^athrough the fire,
Will ^brefine them as silver is refined,
And test them as gold is tested.
^cThey will call on My name,
And I will answer them.
^dI will say, ‘This is My people’;
And each one will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’ ” ‡