Ezekiel 7:13 “The seller will surely not recover what he sold while both remain aliv…”

Ezekiel 7:13

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

World English Bible

For the seller won’t return to that which is sold, although they are still alive; for the vision concerns the whole multitude of it. None will return. None will strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

American Standard Version

For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they be yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, none shall return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

Geneva Bible 1599

For hee that selleth, shall not returne to that which is solde, although they were yet aliue: for the vision was vnto al the multitude thereof, and they returned not, neither doeth any encourage himselfe in the punishment of his life.

Darby Translation

For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, even though he were yet alive amongst the living: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof; it shall not be revoked; and none shall through his iniquity assure his life.

Young's Literal Translation

For the seller to the sold thing turneth not, And yet among the living [is] their life, For the vision [is] unto all its multitude, It doth not turn back, And none by his iniquity doth strengthen his life.

Bible in Basic English

For the trader will not go back to the things for which he had his price, even while he is still living:

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Cross references

“the seller”

Leviticus 25:24–28 Ecclesiastes 8:8 Leviticus 25:31

Leviticus 25:24–28 · BSB

Thus for every piece of property you possess, you must provide for the redemption of the land.

Ecclesiastes 8:8 · BSB

As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

Leviticus 25:31 · BSB

But houses in villages with no walls around them are to be considered as open fields. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.

“neither”

Ezekiel 13:22 Job 15:25 Psalm 52:7 Ezekiel 33:26 Ezekiel 33:27

Ezekiel 13:22 · BSB

Because you have disheartened the righteous with your lies, even though I have caused them no grief, and because you have encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways to save their lives,

Job 15:25 · BSB

For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,

Psalm 52:7 · BSB

“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”

Ezekiel 33:26 · BSB

You have relied on your swords, you have committed detestable acts, and each of you has defiled his neighbor’s wife. Should you then possess the land?’

Ezekiel 33:27 · BSB

Tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, those in the ruins will fall by the sword, those in the open field I will give to be devoured by wild animals, and those in the strongholds and caves w…

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

In context

12The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, for wrath is upon the whole multitude.

14They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one goes to war, for My wrath is upon the whole multitude.

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