Ezekiel 7:13

13. The seller shall not return to that which is sold Any price that he can get for his property is clear gain; but he need not insist upon a lease, or his rights in the year of jubilee, for there is to be no return. He is about to leave Jerusalem never to see it again. Very few of those who left their houses and were carried into Babylon ever returned (Ezra 3:12), and those who did return found their houses in ashes and do not appear to have made any claims of private rights of property (Nehemiah 11:1).

The vision is touching… not return This, probably, is not a part of the original text and should be omitted.

Neither shall any strengthen himself Davidson says, “Perhaps, ‘neither shall anyone keep hold of his life’ maintain his life ’in his iniquity.’” The Polychrome Bible renders, “No one shall strengthen his life by iniquity.” Whether sellers or buyers they are equally corrupt and shall meet the same fate. No man shall profit by his neighbor’s misfortune or escape the penalty of his own sin. The reading adopted by Qimchi (cir. 1200 A.D.) is curious as showing the doubtfulness of the text: “For the life of each is in his iniquity; they shall not strengthen themselves.”