Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 22:14
Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken [it], and will do [it].
14. Cf. Eze 21:7, “every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble.”
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Can thine heart endure? this question is a vehement negation, thou canst by no means endure, withstand and repel the evils that are coming, or bear them when come. Will thy courage hold out, and conquer? Nay, it will be with thee as Eze 21:7, your hearts shall melt.
Can thine hands be strong, to hold the sword, and manage the warlike provisions against Nebuchadnezzar and his army? Your hands shall be exceeding feeble, Eze 21:7, your weapons fall out of your hands, your hearts first melting with fear.
The days; the times of long and multiplied sorrows, and furious indignation.
That I shall deal with thee; the Babylonians are but men, but I the Lord your God, whom you have provoked, am with them; they are my weapons of war and I strike by them, and thou shalt never be able to subsist under it. Flatter not thyself, the Lord will do it as he hath spoken it.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
14. (Eze21:7).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Can thine heart endure,…. Or “stand” d: surely it must fall within thee; become like water, and melt as wax, be it ever so hard and adamantine:
or can thine hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with thee? surely they must become weak, and drop, and not be able to hold a weapon for defence: and, if this would be the case, when God should deal with the Jews for their sins, by sending the Chaldean army to besiege their city, and take it; how will it be with sinners at the day of judgment, and to all eternity, when the awful sentence shall be pronounced, “go ye cursed”; when the wrath of God shall be poured out upon them; when they shall be cast into hell, where the worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched? this will be intolerable by the most stout hearted sinner; no heart will be strong enough to stand up under it, or hands to keep it off:
I the Lord have spoken it, and will do it; he who is the mighty God, the eternal and unchangeable Jehovah; he has said it, that he will deal with impenitent sinners in a way of wrath, and he will be as good as his word; he will certainly accomplish it; it is in vain for men to flatter themselves to the contrary; or to put away the evil day far from them; it shall surely be. The Targum is,
“I have decreed by my word, and I will establish it.”
d “num quid stabit cor tuum?” Paginus, Montanus; “consistet” Munster, Vatablus, Piscator; “perstabit”, Junius and Tremellius, Polanus; “constabit”, Coeccius, Starckius.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
“Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I will deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it and will do it.”
God’s warning comes loud and clear. Those who disobey His commandments will have to face His judgment. And do they think that they will then be able to endure or be strong in the face of God’s enmity and anger? And they can be sure that it will happen, because God has said it.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Eze 22:14 Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken [it], and will do [it].
Ver. 14. Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong? ] Interrogatio continens latentem ironiam – q.d., Misella superbula, erisne ferendo mala futura? Thou pour, proud thing of nought, canst thou make thy party good with me? Canst thou either in mind or body bear my wrath? will not thine heart soon fall into thy heels, and thine hands be enfeebled when I shall grapple with thee, and take thee to do?
And will do it.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
have spoken it. Compare Eze 21:17; and Num 23:19.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Thine heart: Eze 21:7, Eze 28:9, Job 40:9, Isa 31:3, Isa 45:9, Jer 13:21, 1Co 10:22, Heb 10:31
I the: Eze 5:13, Eze 17:24, Eze 24:14, 1Sa 15:29, Mar 13:31
Reciprocal: Jos 7:24 – took Achan Job 33:13 – strive Pro 21:7 – robbery Isa 19:3 – the spirit Jer 5:31 – and what Eze 5:17 – I the Eze 26:14 – for I Eze 36:36 – I the Lord have Eze 37:14 – I the Lord
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 22:14. Can thine hands be strong was the Lords way of telling them they would not be able to resist the wrath that He would soon bring against them.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
22:14 Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands {g} be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken [it], and will do [it].
(g) That is, able to defend yourself.