Zechariah 13:5

In 11 translations

BSB

He will say, ‘I am not a prophet; I work the land, for I was purchased as a servant in my youth.’Or I am a farmer, for the land has been my livelihood since my youth.

KJV

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

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.’

ASV

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.

LSV

And [one] has said, I am not a prophet, || A man—I am a tiller of ground, || For ground [is] my possession from my youth.

YLT

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

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

DRC

But he shall say: I am no prophet, I am a husbandman: for Adam is my example from my youth.

GNV

But he shall say, I am no Prophet: I am an husbandman: for man taught me to be an heardman from my youth vp.

JPS

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.'

LXXE

And one shall say, I am not a prophet, for I am a tiller of the ground, for a man brought me up thus from my youth.

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WLC

וְאָמַ֕ר לֹ֥א נָבִ֖יא אָנֹ֑כִי אִישׁ־עֹבֵ֤ד אֲדָמָה֙ אָנֹ֔כִי כִּ֥י אָדָ֖ם הִקְנַ֥נִי מִנְּעוּרָֽי׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ἐρεῖ, οὐκ εἰμὶ προφήτης ἐγὼ, διότι ἄνθρωπος ἐργαζόμενος τὴν γῆν ἐγώ εἰμι, ὅτι ἄνθρωπος ἐγέννησέ με ἐκ νεότητός μου.

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• Amos 7:14“I was not a prophet,” Amos replied, “nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees.
• Acts 19:17–20This became known to all the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, and fear came over all of them. So the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high honor. Many who had believed now came forward, confessing and disclosing…

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