"The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath {is} upon all the mul…" — Ezekiel 7:12

Ezekiel 7:12 · KJV

“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.”

— Ezekiel 7:12

Verse 11

Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them {shall remain}, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither {shall there be} wailing for them. {theirs: or, their tumultuous persons: Heb. tumult}

Verse 13

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. {although they...: Heb. though their life were yet among the living} {in the...: or, whose life is in his iniquity} {the iniquity: Heb. his iniquity}

Ezekiel 7 — Context

Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.

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.

They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath {is} upon all the multitude thereof.

Cross References

Isaiah 5:13-14

Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because {they have} no knowledge: and their honourable men {are} famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. {honourable...: Heb. glory are men of famine}

1 Corinthians 7:29-31

But this I say, brethren, the time {is} short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

James 5:8-9

Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

Ezekiel 6:11-12

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.

Ezekiel 7:10

Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.

Ezekiel 7:5-7

Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.

Isaiah 24:1-2

Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. {turneth...: Heb. perverteth the face thereof}

Jeremiah 32:7-8

Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that {is} in Anathoth: for the right of redemption {is} thine to buy {it}.