“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 (WEB)
Context Reading
3It 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 Yahweh’s name;’ and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies. 4It 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, 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.’ 6One 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.