4 And it hath come to pass, in that day, Ashamed are the prophets, each of his vision, in his prophesying, And they put not on a hairy robe to deceive.
And they say unto him, `A man -- hairy, and a girdle of skin girt about his loins;' and he saith, `He `is' Elijah the Tishbite.'
at that time spake Jehovah by the hand of Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, `Go, and thou hast loosed the sackcloth from off thy loins, and thy sandal thou dost draw from off thy foot,' and he doth so, going naked and barefoot.
Therefore a night ye have without vision, And darkness ye have without divination, And gone in hath the sun on the prophets, And black over them hath been the day. And ashamed have been the seers, And confounded have been the diviners, And covered their lip have all of them, For their is no answer, O God.
As the shame of a thief when he is found, So put to shame have been the house of Israel, They, their kings, their heads, And their priests, and their prophets,
`But what went ye out to see? -- a man clothed in soft garments? lo, those wearing the soft things are in the kings' houses. `But what went ye out to see? -- a prophet? yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet,
And John was clothed with camel's hair, and a girdle of skin around his loins, and eating locusts and honey of the field,
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Commentary on Zechariah 13 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 13
In this chapter we have,
Zec 13:1-6
Behold the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world, the sin of the church; for therefore was the Son of God manifested, to take away our sin, 1 Jn. 3:5.
Zec 13:7-9
Here is a prophecy,