^7:13The customer will no longer pay the seller²⁵ while both parties are alive, for the vision against their whole crowd²⁶ will not be revoked. Each person, for his iniquity,²⁷ will fail to preserve his life.

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Footnotes

25 The translation follows the for the first line of the verse, although the has lost the second line due to homoioteleuton (similar endings of the clauses). The reads “The seller will not return to the sale.” This Hebrew reading has been construed as a reference to land redemption, the temporary sale of the use of property, with property rights returned to the seller in the year of Jubilee. But the context has no other indicator that land redemption is in view. If correct, the evidence suggests that one of the cases of “the customer” has been replaced by “the seller” in the , perhaps due to hoimoioarcton (similar beginnings of the words).
26 The Hebrew word refers to the din or noise made by a crowd, and by extension may refer to the crowd itself.
27 Or “in their punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here and in v. 16; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 18:17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment for iniquity.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The seller will not recover

the property that was sold—

as long as both buyer and seller live.

For the vision concerning the whole crowd

will not be reversed.

Because of their sins, not one of them

will preserve their life.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The seller will certainly not return

to what was sold

as long as he and the buyer remain alive.

For the vision concerning her whole crowd

will not be revoked,

and because of the iniquity of each one,

none will preserve his life.

NLTNew Living Translation

Even if the merchants survive,

they will never return to their business.

For what God has said applies to everyone—

it will not be changed!

Not one person whose life is twisted by sin

will ever recover.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For the seller will not return to the merchandise while they are still alive, for the vision is about all of its multitude; it will not change, and a man because of his guilt will not be able to hold onto his life.

KJV 1900King James Version

For 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.

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