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.
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Gill's Exposition
For the seller shall not return to that which is sold,.... In the year of jubilee, because he shall be in captivity: according to the law in Lev 25:13, when a man had sold his possession, he returned…
Barnes' Notes
The day - Either of temporal or final judgment. It was grievous for an Israelite to part with his land. But now the seller need not mourn his loss, nor the buyer exult in him gain. All should live the…
Adam Clarke
Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn - Such is now the state of public affairs, that he who through want has been obliged to sell his inheritance, need not mourn on the account; as of this…
We have here fair warning given of the destruction of the land of Israel, which was now hastening on apace. God, by the prophet, not only sends notice of it, but will have it inculcated in the same…
Cambridge Bible
The inhabitants shall be overwhelmed in a common ruin, in which all social relations shall be forgotten the buyer shall not rejoice nor the seller sorrow. A universal "wrath" shall be on all classes,…
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