Ezekiel 7:12 “The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and…”

Ezekiel 7:12

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

The time has come! The day draws near. Don’t let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all its multitude.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

The time is come, the day draweth neere: let not the byer reioyce, nor let him that selleth, mourne: for the wrath is vpon al the multitude thereof.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

Come hath the time, arrived hath the day, The buyer doth not rejoice, And the seller doth not become a mourner, For wrath [is] unto all its multitude.

Bible in Basic English

The time has come, the day is near: let not him who gives a price for goods be glad, or him who gets the price have sorrow:

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Cross references

“time”

1 Corinthians 7:29–31 Ezekiel 7:5–7 Ezekiel 7:10 James 5:8 James 5:9

1 Corinthians 7:29–31 · BSB

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 · BSB

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Disaster! An unprecedented disaster — behold, it is coming!

Ezekiel 7:10 · BSB

Behold, the day is here! It has come! Doom has gone out, the rod has budded, arrogance has bloomed.

James 5:8 · BSB

You, too, be patient and strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.

James 5:9 · BSB

Do not complain about one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged. Look, the Judge is standing at the door!

“let”

Isaiah 24:1 Isaiah 24:2 Jeremiah 32:7 Jeremiah 32:8 Jeremiah 32:24 Jeremiah 32:25

Isaiah 24:1 · BSB

Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—

Isaiah 24:2 · BSB

people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.

Jeremiah 32:7 · BSB

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.’

Jeremiah 32:8 · BSB

Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it f…

Jeremiah 32:24 · BSB

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 happen…

Jeremiah 32:25 · BSB

Yet You, O Lord GOD, have said to me, ‘Buy for yourself the field with silver and call in witnesses, even though the city has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans!’”

“for”

Ezekiel 7:13 Ezekiel 7:14 Ezekiel 6:11 Ezekiel 6:12 Isaiah 5:13 Isaiah 5:14

Ezekiel 7:13 · BSB

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.

Ezekiel 7:14 · BSB

They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one goes to war, for My wrath is upon the whole multitude.

Ezekiel 6:11 · BSB

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.

Ezekiel 6:12 · BSB

He who is far off will die by the plague, he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains will die by famine. So I will vent My fury upon them.

Isaiah 5:13 · BSB

Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.

Isaiah 5:14 · BSB

Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11Their violence has grown into a rod to punish their wickedness. None of them will remain: none of their multitude, none of their wealth, and nothing of value.

13The 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.

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