5but he shall say, I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondman from my youth.


In Context

2 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

3 And it shall come to pass that, when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shall not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.

4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he prophesieth; neither shall they wear a hairy mantle to deceive:

5 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.

6 And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds between thine arms? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.

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.

Zechariah 13:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:5But he shall say, I [am] no prophet, I [am] an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

13:5He will say, 'I am not a prophet. I am a farmer; the land has been my livelihood since my youth. '

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

13:5But he shall say: I am no prophet, I am a husbandman: for Adam is my ex- ample from my youth.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

13:5but he shall say, I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondman from my youth.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:5And he shall say, I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for man acquired me as bondman from my youth.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:5But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am a husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:5but he will say, 'I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondservant from my youth.'

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

13:5And one hath said, 'I am not a prophet, A man, a tiller of ground I am, For ground is my possession from my youth.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:5But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an farmer; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.