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.'


In Context

2 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.

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 name of Yahweh;' 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; neither will they 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 Yahweh 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 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 English Revised 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 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 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.