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.
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.
- BSB 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.
- 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 are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
- 1 Cor 7:29–31But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
- Isa 24:1–2Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
- Jer 32:7–8Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for the right of redemption is thine to buy it.
- Ezek 7:5–7Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
- Ezek 7:10Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
- Ezek 6:11–12Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.
- Jas 5:8–9Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
- Ezek 7:13–14For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
- Jer 32:24–25Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it.
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