Zechariah 13:5
World English Bible (WEB)
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.’
In context
3 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 LORD’s name;’ and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.
4 It will happen in that day that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; they won’t wear a hairy mantle to deceive,
5 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.’
6 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.’
7 “Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says the LORD of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.
Zechariah 13:5 in every translation
- WEB 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.’
- KJV King James Version
- But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- He will say, ‘I am not a prophet; I work the land, for I was purchased as a servant in my youth.’
- ASV American Standard Version
- 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.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And [one] hath said, 'I am not a prophet, A man, a tiller of ground I am, For ground [is] my possession from my youth.'
- DBY Darby Translation
- And he shall say, I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for man acquired me [as bondman] from my youth.
- WBS Webster Bible
- But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am a husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.