Ezekiel 7:13

For the trader will not go back to the things for which he had his price, even while he is still living:

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In The King James Version

For 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.

In Context

12The 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:

14And he who has given a price for goods will not get them, for my wrath is on all of them.

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Cross References

Leviticus 25:24Wherever there is property in land, the owner is to have the right of getting it back.

Job 15:25Because his hand is stretched out against God, and his heart is lifted up against the Ruler of all,

Ecclesiastes 8:8No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.

Ezekiel 12:28Say to them then, This is what the Lord has said: Not one of my words will be put off any longer, but what I say I will do, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 33:26You put your faith in your swords, you do disgusting things, everyone takes his neighbour's wife: are you to have the land for your heritage?

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 7:2-16

The Desolation of Israel. ( b. c. 594.) 1 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land. 3 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations. 4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine… Read the whole commentary →

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