Ezequiel 7:13

13 Porque el que vende no tornará á lo vendido, aunque queden vivos: porque la visión sobre toda su multitud no será cancelada; y ninguno podrá, á causa de su iniquidad, amparar su vida.

Ezequiel 7:13 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 7:13

For the seller shall not return to that which is sold
In the year of jubilee, because he shall be in captivity: according to the law in ( Leviticus 25:13 ) , when a man had sold his possession, he returned to it again, if alive, in the year of jubilee; let it come sooner or later, within thirty, or twenty, or ten years after the sale, be it as it will: now the Babylonish captivity being seventy years, in that time there must be a jubilee; and yet those that had sold their estates, being captives in another land, could not return to them: although they were yet alive:
either though what they have sold is in being, and in good condition; or rather, though they that have sold them are in the land of the living, but, not being in their own land, cannot possess: for the vision [is] touching the whole multitude thereof;
the prophecy of the destruction of the Jews is general, and respects the whole body of the people; men of all ranks and degrees, the buyer and the seller, the rich and the poor: [which] shall not return;
void and of no effect, but shall be fully accomplished; see ( Isaiah 54:11 ) ; though some think this refers not to prophecy, but to the people, who did not upon it return by repentance; in this sense it is taken by Jarchi and Kimchi; and so the Targum,

``for the prophets prophesied to the whole multitude of them to return by repentance, and they returned not:''

neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life:
either secure himself from danger by his unrighteous mammon, his ill gotten goods; or think to escape by his daring impiety, and vicious course of life, continued in without repentance.

Ezequiel 7:13 In-Context

11 La violencia se ha levantado en vara de impiedad; ninguno quedará de ellos, ni de su multitud, ni uno de los suyos; ni habrá quien de ellos se lamente.

12 El tiempo es venido, acercóse el día: el que compra, no se huelgue, y el que vende, no llore: porque la ira está sobre toda su multitud.

13 Porque el que vende no tornará á lo vendido, aunque queden vivos: porque la visión sobre toda su multitud no será cancelada; y ninguno podrá, á causa de su iniquidad, amparar su vida.

14 Tocarán trompeta, y aparejarán todas las cosas, y no habrá quien vaya á la batalla: porque mi ira está sobre toda su multitud.

15 De fuera cuchillo, de dentro pestilencia y hambre: el que estuviere en el campo morirá á cuchillo; y al que estuviere en la ciudad, consumirálo hambre y pestilencia.