Ezekiel 7:13

For the seller does not turn to the sold thing, || And yet their life [is] among the living, || For the vision [is] to all its multitude, || It does not turn back, || And none strengthens his life by his iniquity.

Literal Standard Version

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 has arrived, || The buyer does not rejoice, || And the seller does not become a mourner, || For wrath [is] to all its multitude.

14They have blown with a horn to prepare the whole, || And none is going to battle, || For My wrath [is] to all its multitude.

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Cross References

Leviticus 25:24and in all the land of your possession you give a redemption for the land.

Job 15:25For he stretched out his hand against God, || And against the Mighty he makes himself mighty.

Ecclesiastes 8:8There is no man ruling over the spirit to restrain the spirit, and there is no authority over the day of death, and there is no discharge in battle, and wickedness does not deliver its possessors.

Ezekiel 12:28therefore say to them, Thus said Lord YHWH: None of My words are prolonged anymore, || When I speak a word—it is done, || A declaration of Lord YHWH!”

Ezekiel 33:26You have stood on your sword, || You have done abomination, || You have each defiled the wife of his neighbor, || Should you then possess the land?

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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