12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer [a]rejoice, nor let him that selleth [b]mourn: for the wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

13 For he that selleth, shall not [c]return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the [d]vision was unto all the multitude thereof, and they returned not, [e]neither doth any encourage himself in the punishment of his life.

14 [f]They have blown the trumpet, and prepared all, but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 7:12 For the present profit.
  2. Ezekiel 7:12 For he shall lose nothing.
  3. Ezekiel 7:13 In the year of the Jubilee, meaning that none should enjoy the privilege of the law, Lev. 25:13, for they should all be carried away captives.
  4. Ezekiel 7:13 This vision signified, that all should be carried away, and none should return for the Jubilee.
  5. Ezekiel 7:13 No man for all this endeavoreth himself, or taketh heart to repent for his evil life. Some read, for none shall be strengthened in his iniquity of his life: meaning, that they should gain nothing by flattering themselves in evil.
  6. Ezekiel 7:14 The Israelites made a brag, but their hearts failed them.

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