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Zechariah 13:5-7
Lexham English Bible

5 but he will say, “I am not a prophet; I am a tiller of the soil, for a man has acquired me since my youth.”[a] 6 And someone[b] shall say to him, “What are these wounds between your arms?”[c] and he will say, “Those I have received[d] in the house of the ones who love me.”’”

The Sword Shall Strike the Shepherd

7 “O sword, awake against my shepherd,
    against the man who is my associate,”
        declares[e] Yahweh of hosts.
“Strike the shepherd,
    so that the sheep[f] may be scattered,
    and I will turn my hand against the small ones.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 13:5 Other translations read “for the land has been my possession since my youth”
  2. Zechariah 13:6 Hebrew “he”
  3. Zechariah 13:6 Literally “between your hands”; that is, on the chest or on the back
  4. Zechariah 13:6 Hebrew “have been struck”
  5. Zechariah 13:7 Literally “declaration of”
  6. Zechariah 13:7 Or “flock”; the Hebrew term refers collectively to both sheep and goats (small livestock animals)
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