12 (A)The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not (B)the buyer rejoice, nor (C)the seller mourn, (D)for wrath is upon all their multitude.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 7:12 Or abundance; also verses 13, 14

29 This is what I mean, brothers: (A)the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none, 30 and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy (B)as though they had no goods, 31 and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For (C)the present form of this world is passing away.

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13 Therefore my people go into exile
    (A)for lack of knowledge;[a]
their (B)honored men go hungry,[b]
    and their multitude is parched with thirst.
14 Therefore Sheol has (C)enlarged its appetite
    and opened (D)its mouth beyond measure,
and the nobility of Jerusalem[c] and her multitude will go down,
    her revelers and he who (E)exults in her.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 5:13 Or without their knowledge
  2. Isaiah 5:13 Or die of hunger
  3. Isaiah 5:14 Hebrew her nobility

You also, be patient. (A)Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord (B)is at hand. Do not grumble against one another, brothers, (C)so that you may not be judged; behold, (D)the Judge is standing (E)at the door.

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10 (A)“Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! (B)Your doom has come; (C)the rod has blossomed; pride has budded.

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“Thus says the Lord God: Disaster (A)after disaster![a] Behold, it comes. (B)An end has come; the end has come; it has awakened against you. Behold, it comes. (C)Your doom[b] has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. (D)The time has come; the day is near, a day of tumult, and not (E)of joyful shouting on the mountains.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 7:5 Some Hebrew manuscripts (compare Syriac, Targum); most Hebrew manuscripts Disaster! A unique disaster!
  2. Ezekiel 7:7 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain; also verse 10

11 Thus says the Lord God: (A)“Clap your hands (B)and stamp your foot and say, Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, (C)for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. 12 (D)He who is far off shall die of pestilence, and he who is near shall fall by the sword, and he who is left and is preserved shall die of famine. (E)Thus I will spend my fury upon them.

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Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you and say, (A)‘Buy my field that is at (B)Anathoth, (C)for the right of redemption by purchase is yours.’ Then Hanamel my cousin came to me in (D)the court of the guard, in accordance with the word of the Lord, and said to me, ‘Buy my field that is at (E)Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for the right of possession and redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord.

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Judgment on the Whole Earth

24 Behold, (A)the Lord will empty the earth[a] and make it desolate,
    and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.
(B)And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest;
    as with the slave, so with his master;
    as with the maid, so with her mistress;
(C)as with the buyer, so with the seller;
    as with the lender, so with the borrower;
    (D)as with the creditor, so with the debtor.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 24:1 Or land; also throughout this chapter

13 For (A)the seller shall not return to what he has sold, while they live. (B)For the vision concerns all their multitude; it shall not turn back; and because of his iniquity, none can maintain his life.[a]

14 “They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but none goes to battle, (C)for my wrath is upon all their multitude.

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  1. Ezekiel 7:13 The meaning of this last Hebrew sentence is uncertain

24 Behold, (A)the siege mounds have come up to the city to take it, and (B)because of sword and famine and pestilence (C)the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What you spoke has come to pass, and behold, you see it. 25 Yet you, O Lord God, have said to me, (D)“Buy the field for money (E)and get witnesses”—though (F)the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.’”

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