NET Bible
"Instead he will say,‘I am no prophet– indeed, I am a farmer, for a man has made me his indentured servant since my youth.’"
— Zechariah 13:5, NET Bible
“But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.”
“but he shall say, I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondman from my youth. ”
“but he will say, 'I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondservant from my youth.'”
“But he shall say: I am no prophet, I am a husbandman: for Adam is my example from my youth.”
“But he will say, I am no prophet, but a worker on the land; for I have been an owner of land from the time when I was young.”
“But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.”
And also on that day,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“I will remove the names of the idols from the land and they will never again be remembered. Moreover, I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.
Then, if anyone prophesies in spite of this, his father and mother to whom he was born will say to him,‘You cannot live, for you lie in the name of the LORD.’Then his father and mother to whom he was born will run him through with a sword when he prophesies.
“Therefore, on that day each prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies and will no longer wear the hairy garment of a prophet to deceive the people.
Instead he will say,‘I am no prophet– indeed, I am a farmer, for a man has made me his indentured servant since my youth.’
Then someone will ask him,‘What are these wounds on your chest?’ and he will answer,‘Some that I received in the house of my friends.’
“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. Strike the shepherd that the flock may be scattered; I will turn my hand against the insignificant ones.
It will happen in all the land, says the LORD, that two-thirds of the people in it will be cut off and die, but one-third will be left in it.