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New Living Translation

Ezekiel 7:12

Yes, the time has come; the day is here! Buyers should not rejoice over bargains, nor sellers grieve over losses, for all of them will fall under my terrible anger.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Torrey's Topical Textbook - Commerce;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Jubilee;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Judgment Day;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Trade and Commerce;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jubilee;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Agrarian Laws;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The time has come; the day has arrived.Let the buyer not rejoiceand the seller not mourn,for wrath is on her whole crowd.
Hebrew Names Version
The time is come, the day draws near: don't let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all the multitude of it.
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.
English Standard Version
The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all their multitude.
New American Standard Bible
'The time has come, the day has arrived. Let neither the buyer rejoice nor the seller mourn; for wrath is against all their multitude.
New Century Version
The time has come; the day has arrived. Don't let the buyer be happy or the seller be sad, because my burning anger is against the whole crowd.
Amplified Bible
'The time has come, the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller mourn, for wrath is against all their multitude [of people].
World English Bible
The time is come, the day draws near: don't let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all the multitude of it.
Geneva Bible (1587)
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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'The time has come, the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller mourn; for wrath is against all their multitude.
Legacy Standard Bible
The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not the buyer be glad nor the seller mourn; for wrath is against all their multitude.
Berean Standard Bible
The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, for wrath is upon all their multitudes.
Contemporary English Version
The time is coming when everyone will be ruined. Buying and selling will stop,
Complete Jewish Bible
The time has come, the day has arrived; let neither buyer rejoice nor seller regret; for wrath is coming to all her many people.
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.
Easy-to-Read Version
"The time of punishment has come. The day is here. Those who buy things will not be happy, and those who sell things will not feel bad about selling them because that terrible punishment will happen to everyone.
George Lamsa Translation
The time is come, the day draws near; let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller regret; for wrath is upon all their substance.
Good News Translation
The time is coming. The day is near when buying and selling will have no more meaning, because God's punishment will fall on everyone alike.
Lexham English Bible
The time has come, the day has arrived; let not the buyer rejoice, and let the seller not mourn, for anger is on all their multitude.
Literal Translation
The time has come, the day has arrived. Do not let the buyer rejoice, and do not let the sellers mourn, for wrath is on all her multitude.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The tyme cometh, the daye draweth nye: Who so byeth, let him not reioyce: he that selleth, let him not be sory: for why, Trouble shall come in the myddest off all rest:
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.
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:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
King James Version (1611)
The time is come, the day draweth neere, let not the buyer reioyce, nor the seller mourne: for wrath is vpon all the multitude thereof.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The tyme commeth, the day draweth nye: who so byeth let hym not reioyce, he that selleth let hym not be sory: for why? wrath is vpon all the multitude therof.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The time is come, behold the day: let not the buyer rejoice, and let not the seller mourn.
English Revised 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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The tyme cometh, the dai neiyede; he that bieth, be not glad, and he that sillith, mourne not; for whi ire is on al the puple therof.
Update Bible Version
The time has come, the day draws near: don't let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all the multitude thereof.
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
New English Translation
The time has come; the day has struck! The customer should not rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for divine wrath comes against their whole crowd.
New King James Version
The time has come, The day draws near. "Let not the buyer rejoice, Nor the seller mourn, For wrath is on their whole multitude.
New Life Bible
The time has come. The day has come. Let not the one who buys have joy, or the one who sells have sorrow. For anger is against all their people.
New Revised Standard
The time has come, the day draws near; let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all their multitude.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The time hath come. The day hath arrived, The buyer, let him not rejoice, and The seller, let him not mourn, - For indignation, is against all her multitude.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The time is come, the day is at hand: let not the buyer rejoice: nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the people thereof.
Revised Standard Version
The time has come, the day draws near. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all their multitude.
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.

Contextual Overview

1 Then this message came to me from the Lord : 2 "Son of man, this is what the Sovereign Lord says to Israel: "The end is here! Wherever you look— east, west, north, or south— your land is finished. 3 No hope remains, for I will unleash my anger against you. I will call you to account for all your detestable sins. 4 I will turn my eyes away and show no pity. I will repay you for all your detestable sins. Then you will know that I am the Lord . 5 "This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Disaster after disaster is coming your way! 6 The end has come. It has finally arrived. Your final doom is waiting! 7 O people of Israel, the day of your destruction is dawning. The time has come; the day of trouble is near. Shouts of anguish will be heard on the mountains, not shouts of joy. 8 Soon I will pour out my fury on you and unleash my anger against you. I will call you to account for all your detestable sins. 9 I will turn my eyes away and show no pity. I will repay you for all your detestable sins. Then you will know that it is I, the Lord , who is striking the blow. 10 "The day of judgment is here; your destruction awaits! The people's wickedness and pride have blossomed to full flower.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

time: Ezekiel 7:5-7, Ezekiel 7:10, 1 Corinthians 7:29-31, James 5:8, James 5:9

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

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

Reciprocal: Job 20:18 - and he shall Isaiah 21:12 - The morning Jeremiah 47:4 - the day Ezekiel 7:7 - the time Ezekiel 30:3 - the day is Joel 2:1 - for the Zephaniah 1:14 - it is James 4:13 - and buy

Cross-References

Genesis 7:4
Seven days from now I will make the rains pour down on the earth. And it will rain for forty days and forty nights, until I have wiped from the earth all the living things I have created."
Genesis 7:17
For forty days the floodwaters grew deeper, covering the ground and lifting the boat high above the earth.
Exodus 24:18
Then Moses disappeared into the cloud as he climbed higher up the mountain. He remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Deuteronomy 9:9
This happened when I was on the mountain receiving the tablets of stone inscribed with the words of the covenant that the Lord had made with you. I was there for forty days and forty nights, and all that time I ate no food and drank no water.
Deuteronomy 9:18
"Then, as before, I threw myself down before the Lord for forty days and nights. I ate no bread and drank no water because of the great sin you had committed by doing what the Lord hated, provoking him to anger.
Deuteronomy 10:10
"As for me, I stayed on the mountain in the Lord 's presence for forty days and nights, as I had done the first time. And once again the Lord listened to my pleas and agreed not to destroy you.
1 Kings 19:8
So he got up and ate and drank, and the food gave him enough strength to travel forty days and forty nights to Mount Sinai, the mountain of God.
Matthew 4:2
For forty days and forty nights he fasted and became very hungry.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The time is come, the day draweth near,.... According to the Targum, the time of the recompence of iniquities, and the day of punishment of sins; of the sins of the Jews, by the Chaldean army, which no doubt is true; but it seems chiefly to refer to what follows: and the sense is, the time was coming on, in which

let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; it is usual for the buyer of houses or lands to rejoice, because an addition is made to his estate, and especially when he has made, as he thinks, a good purchase; and the seller, he mourns because he is obliged to part with his estate to pay his debts, and so is reduced in his circumstances; but now the time was coming when the one would have no occasion to rejoice, nor the other to mourn; not the buyer rejoice, because, being carried captive, he cannot enjoy his possessions; nor the seller mourn, because, if he had not sold his house or field, he must have left it:

for wrath [is] upon all the multitude thereof; upon the whole body of the Jewish nation, high and low, rich and poor, bond and free, buyer and seller; those that are in good circumstances, and those that are in bad ones; so that hereby they were all upon a level, in the same case and condition.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The day - Either of temporal or final judgment.

It was grievous for an Israelite to part with his land. But now the seller need not mourn his loss, nor the buyer exult in him gain. All should live the pitiful lives of strangers in another country.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 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.


 
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