Ezekiel 7:12

Translations

Modern

The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, for wrath is upon the whole multitude.

Traditional

The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

Literal

The time has come, the day has drawn near! Let the buyer not rejoice, and let the seller not mourn; for wrath is upon all their multitude.

Latin

Venit tempus, appropinquavit dies: qui emit, non lætetur, et qui vendit, non lugeat: quia ira super omnem populum ejus.

Original

Hebrew

English

The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, for wrath is upon the whole multitude.

Notes

Ezekiel 7:12–13

Commercial transactions would lose their meaning. Buying and selling would no longer matter.

There would be no such thing as a good deal or a bad deal. Buyers and sellers alike would face God’s terrible anger.

Ezekiel 7:12–27

Comprehensive judgment is shown in two matching sections: Ezekiel 7:12–18 and 7:19–27.

Each section begins by showing that material gain (money and property) is useless in light of the coming judgment. Then the text describes the arrival of war and its terrible results. Finally, each section ends with a picture of fear, helplessness, and deep mourning among the people.

Ezekiel 7:1–27

Ezekiel 7 contains three messages of doom (7:3–4, 5–9, 10–27). These messages reminded Judah that their coming destruction was not random. It was an act of the Lord's judgment.

Ezekiel 4:1–7:27

These chapters discuss words and actions that warned of disaster for Jerusalem (Ezekiel 4–5) and the land of Judah (Ezekiel 6–7).

Events

Prophecies of Ezekielc. 593 BC

Related verses

Isaiah 5:13–14
Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.
1 Corinthians 7:29–31
What I am saying, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;
Ezekiel 7:5–7
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Disaster! An unprecedented disaster—behold, it is coming!
Ezekiel 7:10
Behold, the day is here! It has come! Doom has gone out, the rod has budded, arrogance has bloomed.
Isaiah 24:1–2
Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—
Ezekiel 6:11–12
This is what the Lord GOD says: Clap your hands, stomp your feet, and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel, who will fall by sword and famine and plague.
James 5:8–9
You, too, be patient and strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.
Jeremiah 32:7–8
Behold! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy for yourself my field in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.’
Ezekiel 7:13–14
The seller will surely not recover what he sold while both remain alive. For the vision concerning the whole multitude will not be revoked, and because of their iniquity, not one of them will preserve his life.
Jeremiah 32:24–25
See how the siege ramps are mounted against the city to capture it. And by sword and famine and plague, the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What You have spoken has happened, as You now see!

Glossary

Ezekiel, Book of Son of Man

Topics

Commerce: Denunciations Connected with Abuses of

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