Zechariah 13:5

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Instead, they will say, ‘I am not a prophet; I am a farmer, for I have been working the land since my youth.’

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  • Amos 7:14 : 14 Amos answered Amaziah, 'I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore figs.'
  • Acts 19:17-20 : 17 This became known to all the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus. Fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. 18 Many who had believed came confessing and disclosing their practices. 19 A large number of those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned them in front of everyone. They calculated the value of the books and found it to be fifty thousand silver coins. 20 So the word of the Lord continued to grow and prevail mightily.

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    6And if someone asks, ‘What are these wounds on your body?’ they will answer, ‘They are the wounds I received in the house of my friends.’

    7Awake, O sword, against My shepherd and against the man who is My companion, declares the LORD of hosts. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn My hand against the little ones.

  • Zech 13:3-4
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    3If anyone still prophesies on that day, his father and mother—those who gave birth to him—will say to him, ‘You must die, because you have spoken lies in the name of the LORD.’ Then his parents, who brought him into the world, will pierce him through when he prophesies.

    4On that day, every prophet will be ashamed of their visions when they prophesy. They will no longer wear a cloak of hair to deceive.

  • Amos 7:14-16
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    14Amos answered Amaziah, 'I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore figs.'

    15But the Lord took me from tending the flock and said to me, 'Go, prophesy to My people Israel.'

    16Now therefore, hear the word of the Lord: You say, 'Do not prophesy against Israel and do not preach against the house of Isaac.'

  • Isa 3:7
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    7But he will say in that day, ‘I will not be a healer. I have no food or clothing in my house. Do not appoint me as the ruler of the people.’

  • Jer 14:13-15
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    13But I said, "Ah, Sovereign LORD, the prophets are telling them, 'You will not see the sword or suffer famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.'"

    14The LORD said to me: "The prophets are prophesying lies in My name. I did not send them, command them, or speak to them. They are seeing false visions, giving worthless divinations and deceitful messages from their own hearts.

    15Therefore, this is what the LORD says about the prophets who prophesy in My name, though I did not send them, and who declare, 'No sword or famine will touch this land': By sword and famine, those prophets will meet their end.

  • Joel 1:11
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    11Be ashamed, you farmers; wail, you vinekeepers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

  • Isa 61:5
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    5Strangers will stand and shepherd your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.

  • Zech 11:15-16
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    15The LORD said to me, 'Take again the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

    16For behold, I am raising up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those being destroyed, seek the young, heal the injured, or feed the healthy, but will eat the meat of the fat sheep and tear off their hooves.'

  • Jer 14:18
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    18If I go out into the field, I see those slain by the sword. If I enter the city, I see the agonies of famine. Even the prophet and the priest wander aimlessly in the land and have no understanding.

  • Ezek 13:1-3
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    1The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

    2Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are prophesying, and say to those who prophesy out of their own imagination: Hear the word of the LORD.

    3This is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!

  • Ps 129:7
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    7with which the reaper does not fill his hand, nor the binder of sheaves his arms.

  • 1 Cor 9:7
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    7Who serves as a soldier at their own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink the milk from the flock?

  • Hab 3:17
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    17Though the fig tree does not blossom and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and there are no cattle in the stalls,

  • Jer 5:12-13
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    12They have lied about the Lord and said, 'He won't do anything! No disaster will come upon us; we will not see sword or famine.'

    13The prophets are but wind, for the word is not in them; therefore, let what they say be done to them.

  • Zech 11:4
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    4This is what the LORD my God says: ‘Shepherd the flock marked for slaughter.’

  • Mic 2:6
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    6'Do not preach,' they preach. 'Do not preach about such things; disgrace will not overtake us.'

  • Isa 5:5
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    5Now let me tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled.

  • John 15:1
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    1I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.

  • Jer 1:6
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    6Then I said, 'Ah, Lord GOD! I do not know how to speak because I am too young.'

  • Mic 2:11
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    11If someone full of wind and deceit lies and says, 'I will preach to you about wine and strong drink,' that would be just the preacher for this people!

  • Ezek 34:10
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    10This is what the Lord GOD says, 'Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand My flock from their hand and stop them from shepherding My flock. The shepherds will no longer feed themselves, for I will rescue My flock from their mouths, so it will no longer be food for them.'

  • Ezek 13:9
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    9My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will not belong to the council of my people, nor be recorded in the register of the house of Israel, nor enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.

  • Ezek 34:2
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    2Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to them, the shepherds: This is what the Lord GOD says, 'Woe to the shepherds of Israel who have been feeding themselves! Should not shepherds feed the flock?

  • Jer 17:16
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    16I have not hurried away from being a shepherd after You. I have not desired the day of disaster. You know what has come from my lips; it was before You.

  • Isa 7:25
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    25As for all the hills once cultivated with a hoe, you will no longer go there for fear of the briers and thorns; they will become places where cattle are turned loose and sheep run freely.

  • Amos 5:16
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    16Therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Hosts, the Lord says: There will be wailing in all the open squares, and in all the streets they will say, 'Woe, woe!' They will summon the farmer to mourning and professional mourners to lamentation.

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    5The Sovereign LORD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious; I did not turn away.

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    6If anyone has planted a vineyard but has not yet enjoyed its fruit, let him go back to his house, lest he die in battle and another enjoy its fruit.

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    4I will appoint shepherds over them who will care for them, and they will no longer be afraid or dismayed, nor will any be missing, declares the LORD.

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    5This is what the LORD says: "As for the prophets who lead my people astray, they proclaim peace when they have something to eat but prepare for war against those who do not feed them.

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    19Another said, ‘I have bought five pairs of oxen, and I am on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.’

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    21On that day a man will keep alive a young cow and two goats.

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    8'As surely as I live,' declares the Lord GOD, 'because My flock has become prey and My flock has become food for every wild animal since there was no shepherd and My shepherds did not search for My flock, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock,

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    35The shepherds will have no refuge, and the leaders of the flock will find no escape.