World English Bible
"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.'"
— Zechariah 13:5, World English 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. ”
“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.’”
“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.”
It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will be remembered no more. I will also cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land.
It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, 'You must die, because you speak lies in the name of Yahweh;' and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.
It will happen in that day, that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision, when he prophesies; neither will they wear a hairy mantle to deceive:
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.'
One will say to him, 'What are these wounds between your arms?' Then he will answer, 'Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.'
"Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me," says Yahweh of Armies. "Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.
It shall happen that in all the land," says Yahweh, "two parts in it will be cut off and die; but the third will be left in it.