Ezekiel 7:12

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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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
time	הָעֵת֙ ha.'Et	H6256	time · definite article + noun, common both genders singular absolute
come	בָּ֤א ba'	H935	to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
day	הַיּ֔וֹם hai.Yom	H3117	a day (as the warm hours) · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
near	הִגִּ֣יעַ hi.Gi.a'	H5060	properly · verb, hiphil perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
buyer	הַקּוֹנֶה֙ ha.ko.Neh	H7069	to erect · definite article + verb, qal active participle, masculine singular absolute
rejoice	יִשְׂמָ֔ח yis.Mach	H8055	probably to brighten up · verb, qal jussive, 3rd person masculine singular
seller	וְהַמּוֹכֵ֖ר ve.ha.mo.Kher	H4376	to sell · conjunction + definite article + verb, qal active participle, masculine singular absolute
mourn	יִתְאַבָּ֑ל yit.'a.Bal	H56	to bewail · verb, hithpael jussive, 3rd person masculine singular
wrath	חָר֖וֹן cha.Ron	H2740	a burning of anger · noun, common masculine singular absolute
multitude	הֲמוֹנָֽהּ ha.mo.Nah	H1995	a noise · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular

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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 drie…
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;
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.
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 redemp…
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!…
Ezekiel 7:5-7 Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
Ezekiel 7:10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
James 5:8-9 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 7:1-15

We have here fair warning given of the destruction of the land of Israel, which was now hastening on apace. God, by the prophet, not only sends notice of it, but will have it inculcated in the same expressions, to show that the thing is certain, that it is near, that the prophet is himself affected with it and desires they should be so too, but finds them deaf, and stupid, and unaffected. When the town is on fire men do no seek for fine words and quaint expressions in which to give an account of it, but cry about the streets, with a loud and lamentable voice, "Fire! fire!" So the prophet here proclaims, An end! an end! it has come, it has come; behold, it has come. He that hath ears to hear…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 7:12

let not . . . buyer rejoice--because he has bought an estate at a bargain price. nor . . . seller mourn--because he has had to sell his land at a sacrifice through poverty. The Chaldeans will be masters of the land, so that neither shall the buyer have any good of his purchase, nor the seller any loss; nor shall the latter (Eze 7:13) return to his inheritance at the jubilee year (see Lev 25:13). 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 (Co1 7:30) seems to allude to Ezekiel here. Jer 32:15, Jer 32:37, Jer 32:43, seems to contradict Ezekiel here. But Ezekie…

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Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 7:12

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.

John Gill on Ezekiel 7:12

The Church Fathers

(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). And in another place: For the form of this world passes away (Ibid., 31). It is to be noted that he did not say it will be postponed to the future, but he spoke of the present, it passes away, and the form of the world slips away daily. For it never remains in the same state; but the form of things that are growing and decaying flies by and changes. Hence the Lord also said: Heaven and earth will pass away (Matth. XXIV, 35). But if these things, in which all things that are in the world are contained, pass and go through, what can be perpetual in human affairs?
— Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel

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Dictionary and topics

Jubilee — A joyful shout or clangour of trumpets, the name of the great semi-centennial festival of the Hebrews. It lasted for a year. During this year the land was to be fallow, and the Israelites were only…
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Ezekiel 7:12

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 7:1-15

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 7:12

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 7:12

John Gill on Ezekiel 7:12

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Ezekiel 7:12

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 7:1-15

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 7:12

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 7:12

John Gill on Ezekiel 7:12

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Ezekiel 7:12

Keil & Delitzsch on Ezekiel 7:10-14

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Ezekiel 7:12-27

Rashi on Ezekiel 7:12