Ezekiel 7:12

The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

Let not the buyer rejoice - because he has bought an estate at a bargain price.

Nor the seller mourn - because he has had to sell his land at a sacrifice through poverty. The Chaldeans will be masters of the land, so that neither shell the buyer have any good of his purchase nor the seller any loss; nor shall the latter (), "the seller ... return to" his inheritance at the jubilee year (see ). Spiritually this holds good now, seeing that "the time is short," "They that rejoice should be as though they rejoiced not, and they that buy as though they possessed not:" Paul () seems to allude to Ezekiel here. ; ; . "Fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate," etc., seems to contradict Ezekiel here. But Ezekiel is speaking of the parents, and of the present; Jeremiah, of the children, and of the future. Jeremiah is addressing believers, that they should hope for a restoration; Ezekiel, the reprobate, who were excluded from hope of deliverance.