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Zechariah 13:5
“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.”
Verse in context — Zechariah 13
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.
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