Zechariah 13:5-7

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁵but each of them will say, ‘I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the soil; for the land has been my possession^[a] since my youth.’ ⁶And if anyone asks them, ‘What are these wounds on your chest?’^[b] the answer will be ‘The wounds I received in the house of my friends.’

The Shepherd Struck, the Flock Scattered

⁷‘Awake, O sword, against my shepherd,
against the man who is my associate,’
says the Lord of hosts.
Strike the shepherd, that the sheep may be scattered;
I will turn my hand against the little ones.

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Footnotes

Zechariah 13:5 Cn: Heb for humankind has caused me to possess
Zechariah 13:6 Heb wounds between your hands

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