The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, for wrath is upon the whole multitude.
Parallel translations
- WEB The time has come! The day draws near. Don’t let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all its multitude.
- KJV 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.
- NKJV The time has come, The day draws near. ‘Let not the buyer rejoice, Nor the seller mourn, For wrath is on their whole multitude.
- NASB The time has come, the day has arrived. Let neither the buyer rejoice nor the seller mourn; for wrath is against all their multitude.
- NLT Yes, the time has come; the day is here! Buyers should not rejoice over bargains, nor sellers grieve over losses, for all of them will fall under my terrible anger.
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Quick answer
The day is near; buyer and seller alike have no reason to rejoice or mourn, for wrath falls on all. Ordinary commerce loses meaning before judgment.
Overview
The Lord announces that normal life, buying and selling, becomes irrelevant because wrath rests on the whole community. Neither gain nor loss matters when judgment overtakes everyone alike. The verse exposes how fleeting earthly transactions are in light of God's coming day, echoing the call to value eternal things above temporal ones.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Isa 5:13–14Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.
- 1 Cor 7:29–31What I am saying, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;
- Isa 24:1–2Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—
- Jer 32:7–8Behold! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy for yourself my field in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.’
- Ezek 7:5–7This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Disaster! An unprecedented disaster—behold, it is coming!
- Ezek 7:10Behold, the day is here! It has come! Doom has gone out, the rod has budded, arrogance has bloomed.
- Ezek 6:11–12This is what the Lord GOD says: Clap your hands, stomp your feet, and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel, who will fall by sword and famine and plague.
- Jas 5:8–9You, too, be patient and strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.
- Ezek 7:13–14The seller will surely not recover what he sold while both remain alive. For the vision concerning the whole multitude will not be revoked, and because of their iniquity, not one of them will preserve his life.
- Jer 32:24–25See how the siege ramps are mounted against the city to capture it. And by sword and famine and plague, the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What You have spoken has happened, as You now see!
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