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 (Ezekiel 7:13), "the seller ... return to" his inheritance at the jubilee year (see Leviticus 25:13). 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 (1 Corinthians 7:38) seems to allude to Ezekiel here. Jeremiah 32:15; Jeremiah 32:37; Jeremiah 32:43. "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.