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Ezekiel 7:12

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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.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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.

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.

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This verse in Ezekiel 7

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

(Verse 12.) The time has come, the day is approaching. It is not only said of Jerusalem that the time of its captivity has come and the day has approached when it will be besieged by the Babylonian army, but also to the one who was rejoicing in his built and expanded storehouses, the Lord speaks: Fool, tonight your soul will be taken from you; and the things which you have prepared, whose will they be (Luke 12:20)? From where the Apostle also says: The time, he says, has been shortened (1 Corinthians 7:29).

This site's exposition

the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded

on Ezekiel 7:10-12

The image turns botanical: the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded, a picture of ripeness rather than decay, the nation's own arrogance grown to the point of harvest. Verse 11 adds violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness, the same word rod now bearing the opposite weight, an instrument of punishment rather than a budding plant, and verse 12 turns to daily commerce, let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn. Fairbairn reads the market language as the ordinary transactions of Jerusalem's last days rendered pointless, since neither buyer nor seller will keep what changes hands in a city about to fall.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn - Such is now the state of public affairs, that he who through want has been obliged to sell his inheritance, need not mourn on the account; as of this the enemy would soon have deprived him. And he who has bought it need not rejoice in his bargain, as he shall soon be stripped of his purchase, and either fall by the sword, or be glad to flee for his life.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Spiritually this holds good now, seeing that "the time is short"; "they that rejoice should be as though they rejoiced not, and they that buy as though they possessed not": Paul (1Co 7:30) seems to allude to Ezekiel here. Jer 32:15, 37, 43, seems to contradict Ezekiel here. But Ezekiel is speaking of the parents, and of the present;

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

neither will the seller mourn Although one who sells his field usually grieves, he will not grieve because you are destined to go into exile.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Ezekiel 7:12:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
2 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
The violence has arisen, etc. The violence in your hands has risen upon you as a staff of wickedness to destroy you.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Ezekiel 7:11:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
For the seller will not return to that which was sold Once he goes into exile, he will not return and will no longer see the field that he had sold; so why should he mourn?
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Ezekiel 7:13:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • בָּ֤אit has come

    ba'H935 →2568 times

  • הָעֵת֙the time

    haetH6256 →296 times

  • הִגִּ֣יעַit has arrived

    higia'H5060 →150 times

  • הַיּ֔וֹםthe day

    haiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • הַקּוֹנֶה֙the buyer

    hakonehH7069 →

  • אַל־may not

    ʾal-H408 →724 times

  • יִשְׂמָ֔חhe rejoice

    yismachH8055 →155 times

  • וְהַמּוֹכֵ֖רand the seller

    vehamokherH4376 →80 times

  • אַל־may not

    ʾal-H408 →724 times

  • יִתְאַבָּ֑לhe mourn

    yitabalH56 →39 times

  • כִּ֥יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • חָר֖וֹןanger

    charonH2740 →

  • אֶל־[is] against

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הֲמוֹנָֽהּ׃multitude its

    hamonahH1995 →83 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Joel 2:1Blow the ram’s horn in Zion; sound the alarm on My holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the Day of the LORD is coming; indeed, it is near—7 worksZephaniah 1:14The great Day of the LORD is near—near and coming quickly. Listen, the Day of the LORD! Then the cry of the mighty will be bitter.6 worksIsaiah 5:13–14Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.5 works1 Corinthians 7:29–31What I am saying, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;4 worksEzekiel 30:3For the day is near, the Day of the LORD is near. It will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.4 worksJeremiah 32:7–8Behold! 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.’3 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Ezekiel 7:10Behold, the day is here! It has come! Doom has gone out, the rod has budded, arrogance has bloomed.3 worksJames 5:8–9You, too, be patient and strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.3 worksIsaiah 24:1–2Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—3 worksEzekiel 6:11–12This 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.3 worksEzekiel 7:5–7This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Disaster! An unprecedented disaster—behold, it is coming!3 worksJeremiah 47:4For the day has come to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every remaining ally. Indeed, the LORD is about to destroy the Philistines, the remnant from the coasts of Caphtor.3 worksEzekiel 7:7Doom has come to you, O inhabitants of the land. The time has come; the day is near; there is panic on the mountains instead of shouts of joy.3 worksEzekiel 7:13–14The 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.2 worksJeremiah 32:24–25See 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!2 worksJames 4:13Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.”2 worksJob 20:18He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading.2 worksIsaiah 21:12The watchman replies, “Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again.”2 works

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 7:10

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

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 10:5

      Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.

    • 1 Thessalonians 5:3

      While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

    • James 4:6

      But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

    • Proverbs 16:18

      Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

    • Numbers 17:8

      The next day Moses entered the Tent of the Testimony and saw that Aaron’s staff, representing the house of Levi, had sprouted, put forth buds, blossomed, and produced almonds.

About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.

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