Ezequiel 7:12

12 Llegó la hora; este es el día. Que no se alegre el que compra ni llore el que vende, porque mi enojo caerá sobre toda la multitud.

Ezequiel 7:12 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 7:12

The time is come, the day draweth near
According to the Targum, the time of the recompence of iniquities, and the day of punishment of sins; of the sins of the Jews, by the Chaldean army, which no doubt is true; but it seems chiefly to refer to what follows: and the sense is, the time was coming on, in which let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn;
it is usual for the buyer of houses or lands to rejoice, because an addition is made to his estate, and especially when he has made, as he thinks, a good purchase; and the seller, he mourns because he is obliged to part with his estate to pay his debts, and so is reduced in his circumstances; but now the time was coming when the one would have no occasion to rejoice, nor the other to mourn; not the buyer rejoice, because, being carried captive, he cannot enjoy his possessions; nor the seller mourn, because, if he had not sold his house or field, he must have left it: for wrath [is] upon all the multitude thereof;
upon the whole body of the Jewish nation, high and low, rich and poor, bond and free, buyer and seller; those that are in good circumstances, and those that are in bad ones; so that hereby they were all upon a level, in the same case and condition.

Ezequiel 7:12 In-Context

10 »¡Ya llegó el día! ¡Ya está aquí! ¡Tu suerte está echada! Florece la injusticia, germina el orgullo,

11 y la violencia produce frutos de maldad. Nada quedará de ustedes ni de su multitud; nada de su riqueza ni de su opulencia.

12 Llegó la hora; este es el día. Que no se alegre el que compra ni llore el que vende, porque mi enojo caerá sobre toda la multitud.

13 Y aunque el vendedor siga con vida, no recuperará lo vendido. Porque no se revocará la visión referente a toda su multitud, y por su culpa nadie podrá conservar la vida.

14 Aunque toquen la trompeta y preparen todo, nadie saldrá a la batalla, porque mi enojo caerá sobre toda la multitud.