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12 The time is coming! The day draws near!
    No buyer should rejoice, and no seller should mourn,
        because wrath overcomes the whole crowd.
13     The seller will never get back what was sold,
        even if both of them survive.
The vision concerns the whole crowd.
        It won’t be revoked.
    And the guilty ones—
        they won’t even be able to hang on to their lives.
14 They have blown the horn,
    and everything is ready, but no one goes to battle,
        because my wrath overcomes the whole crowd.

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12 The time has come!
    The day has arrived!
Let not the buyer(A) rejoice
    nor the seller grieve,
    for my wrath is on the whole crowd.(B)
13 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.(C)

14 “‘They have blown the trumpet,(D)
    they have made all things ready,
but no one will go into battle,
    for my wrath(E) is on the whole crowd.

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