Ezekiel 7:13

Ezekiel 7:13 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)The seller will not recover the property that was sold— as long as both buyer and seller live. For the vision concerning the whole crowd will not be reversed. Because of their sins, not one of them will preserve their life.
• English Standard Version (ESV)For the seller shall not return to what he has sold, while they live. For the vision concerns all their multitude; it shall not turn back; and because of his iniquity, none can maintain his life.
• New King James Version (NKJV)For the seller shall not return to what has been sold, Though he may still be alive; For the vision concerns the whole multitude, And it shall not turn back; No one will strengthen himself Who lives in iniquity.

Context of Ezekiel 7:13

11Violence has grown into a staff that supports wickedness. Not one of them will be left – not from their crowd, not from their wealth, not from their prominence. 12The time has come; the day has struck! The customer should not rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for divine wrath comes against their whole crowd. The customer will no longer pay the seller while both parties are alive, for the vision against their whole crowd will not be revoked. Each person, for his iniquity, will fail to preserve his life. 14“They have blown the trumpet and everyone is ready, but no one goes to battle, because my anger is against their whole crowd. 15The sword is outside; pestilence and famine are inside the house. Whoever is in the open field will die by the sword, and famine and pestilence will consume everyone in the city.

Ezekiel 7:13 word by word

כִּ֣י הַמּוֹכֵ֗ר אֶל־הַמִּמְכָּר֙ לֹ֣א יָשׁ֔וּב וְע֥וֹד בַּחַיִּ֖ים חַיָּתָ֑ם כִּֽי־חָז֤וֹן אֶל־כָּל־הֲמוֹנָהּ֙ לֹ֣א יָשׁ֔וּב וְאִ֧ישׁ בַּעֲוֹנ֛וֹ חַיָּת֖וֹ לֹ֥א יִתְחַזָּֽקוּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• For the sellerמָכַרmâkar · to sellH4376
• shall not returnשׁוּבshûb · to return: returnH7725
• to that which is soldמִמְכָּרmimkâr · saleH4465
• although they were yet aliveחַיchay · aliveH2416
• for the visionחָזוֹןchâzôn · visionH2377
• touching the whole multitudeהָמוֹןhâmôn hâmôn · crowdH1995
• shall not returnשׁוּבshûb · to return: repentH7725
• neither shall anyאִישׁ'îysh · man: anyoneH376
• strengthenחָזַקchâzaq · to strengthen: strengthenH2388
• himself in the iniquityעָוֺן‛âvôn ‛âvôn · iniquity: crimeH5771

Cross-references for Ezekiel 7:13

• Ecclesiastes 8:8Just as no one has power over the wind to restrain it, so no one has power over the day of his death. Just as no one can be discharged during the battle, so wickedness cannot rescue the wicked.
• Leviticus 25:24In all your landed property you must provide for the right of redemption of the land.
• Ezekiel 13:22This is because you have disheartened the righteous person with lies (although I have not grieved him), and because you have encouraged the wicked person not to turn from his evil conduct and preserve his life.
• Ezekiel 33:26You rely on your swords and commit abominable deeds; each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. Will you possess the land?’
• Job 15:25for he stretches out his hand against God, and vaunts himself against the Almighty,
• Psalms 52:7“Look, here is the man who would not make God his protector! He trusted in his great wealth and was confident about his plans to destroy others.”

Commentaries on Ezekiel 7:13

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13For the seller shall not return - In the sale of all heritages among the Jews, it was always understood that the heritage must return to the family on the year of jubilee, which was every fiftieth year; but in this case the seller should not return to possess it, as it was not likely that he should be alive when the next jubilee should come, and if he were even to live till that time, he could not possess it, as he would then be in captivity. And the…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13Although they were yet alive - Though they be yet among the living. Which shall not return … - He (i. e. the seller) shall not return; and, every man living in his iniquity, they shall gather no strength. Exile being the punishment of iniquity, the exiles were said to “live in their iniquity.”Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12-13Commercial transactions would lose their meaning. Buying and selling would no longer matter. There would be no such thing as a good deal or a bad deal. Buyers and sellers alike would face God’s terrible anger.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. although they were yet alive--although they should live to the year of jubilee. multitude thereof--namely, of the Jews. which shall not return--answering to "the seller shall not return"; not only he, but the whole multitude, shall not return. Calvin omits "is" and "which": "the vision touching the whole multitude shall not return" void (Is 55:11). neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life--No hardening of one's self in iniquity…Read the comment

In the dictionaries

• Counsel
• Devour
• Jubilee
• Judge
• Living creatures
• Pour
• Zedekiah (2)

Commentaries on Ezekiel 7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings