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Instead, they will say, “I'm no prophet. I've been a farmer all my life.”[a]

And if any of them are asked why they are wounded,[b] they will answer, “It happened at the house of some friends.”

A Wounded Shepherd and Scattered Sheep

(A) The Lord All-Powerful said:

My sword, wake up! Attack
    my shepherd and friend.
Strike down the shepherd!
Scatter the little sheep,
    and I will destroy them.

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Footnotes

  1. 13.5 I've … my life: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
  2. 13.6 wounded: Probably from slashing themselves in the worship of a false god (see 1 Kings 18.28).

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