but he will say, (A)‘I am no prophet, I am a worker of the soil, for a man sold me in my youth.’[a] And if one asks him, ‘What are these wounds on your back?’[b] he will say, ‘The wounds I received in the house of my friends.’

The Shepherd Struck

“Awake, O sword, against (B)my shepherd,
    against the man who stands next to me,”
declares the Lord of hosts.

(C)“Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered;
    I will turn my hand against the little ones.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 13:5 Or for the land has been my possession since my youth
  2. Zechariah 13:6 Or on your chest; Hebrew wounds between your hands

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