Ezekiel 7:12
12 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.
Eze. 7:12. "Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn." Here it may be asked, What occasion would the seller here have to mourn more than the buyer, if there had been no captivity approaching? When men make bargains, both buyer and seller aim at their own advantage. Answer: The prophet here has respect to buyers and sellers of inheritances. Inheritances were not wont to be sold in Israel, unless a man was become poor and was obliged to sell his inheritance, and it was looked upon as a great calamity to a man when he was thus obliged to sell his inheritance; and therefore God, in mercy and tenderness to them, required that the land should not be sold forever, but that a redemption should be granted. Leviticus 25:23-25. But at this time, neither had the seller any occasion to mourn nor the buyer to rejoice, for it made no alteration in the circumstances of one or the other, because the whole Land was about to be broken up and left desolate, and they were all to be carried away out of it into captivity.
Eze. 9:5-6