◄ Zechariah 13:4 ►
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Good News Translation
When that time comes, no prophet will be proud of his visions or act like a prophet or wear a prophet's coarse garment in order to deceive people.

New Revised Standard Version
On that day the prophets will be ashamed, every one, of their visions when they prophesy; they will not put on a hairy mantle in order to deceive,

Contemporary English Version
Those prophets will be ashamed of their so-called visions, and they won't deceive anyone by dressing like a true prophet.

New American Bible
On that day, all prophets will be ashamed of the visions they prophesy; and they will not put on the hairy mantle to mislead,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be confounded, every one by his own vision, when he shall prophesy, neither shall they be clad with a garment of sackcloth, to deceive:

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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be confounded, every one by his own vision, when he shall prophesy, neither shall they be clad with a garment of sackcloth, to deceive:

the prophets.

Jeremiah 2:26 As the thief is confounded when he is taken, so is the house of Israel confounded, they and their kings, their princes and their priests, and their prophets.

Micah 3:6,7 Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people err: that bite with their teeth, and preach peace: and if a man give not something into their mouth, they prepare war against him. . . .

wear.

2 Kings 1:8 But they said: A hairy man, with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said: It is Elias, the Thesbite.

Isaiah 20:2 At that same time the Lord spoke by the hand of Isaiah the son of Amos, saying Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and take off thy shoes from thy feet. And he did so, and went naked, and barefoot.

Matthew 3:4 And the same John had his garment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and his meat was locusts and wild honey.

Matthew 11:8,9 But what went you out to see? a man clothed in soft garments? Behold they that are clothed in soft garments, are in the houses of kings. . . .

Mark 1:6 And John was clothed camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and he ate locusts and wild honey.

Revelation 11:3 And I will give unto my two witnesses: and they shall prophesy, a thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.

rough garment to deceive.

Context
An End to Idolatry
…3And it shall come to pass, that when any man shall prophesy any more, his father and his mother that brought him into the world, shall say to him: Thou shalt not live: because thou hast spoken a lie in the name of the Lord. And his father, and his mother, his parents, shall thrust him through, when he shall prophesy. 4And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be confounded, every one by his own vision, when he shall prophesy, neither shall they be clad with a garment of sackcloth, to deceive:5But he shall say: I am no prophet, I am a husbandman: for Adam is my example from my youth.…
Cross References
Matthew 3:4
And the same John had his garment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and his meat was locusts and wild honey.

Hebrews 11:37
They were stoned, they were cut asunder, they were tempted, they were put to death by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being in want, distressed, afflicted:

2 Kings 1:8
But they said: A hairy man, with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said: It is Elias, the Thesbite.

Isaiah 20:2
At that same time the Lord spoke by the hand of Isaiah the son of Amos, saying Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and take off thy shoes from thy feet. And he did so, and went naked, and barefoot.

Jeremiah 6:15
They were confounded, because they committed abomination: yea, rather they were not confounded with confusion, and they knew not how to blush: wherefore they shall fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall fall down, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:9
The wise men are confounded, they are dismayed, and taken: for they have cast away the word of the Lord, and there is no wisdom in them.

Micah 3:7
Therefore night shall be to you instead of vision, and darkness to you instead of divination: and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be darkened over them.

Zechariah 13:3
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