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Ezekiel 7:12 KJV
Ezekiel · chapter 7 · verse 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.Ezekiel 7:12 · King James Version
Ezekiel 7:12 in context
10Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
11Violence 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.
12The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
13For 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.
14They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- rejoicesâmachprobably to brighten upH8055 →
- sellermâkarto sell, literally , or figurativelyH4376 →
- buyerqânâhto erectH7069 →
- mournʼâbalto bewailH56 →
- wrathchârôwna burning of angerH2740 →
- timeʻêthtime, especially now, when, etcH6256 →
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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…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-15