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Ezekiel 22:14

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.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Ezekiel 22:1-16

In these verses the prophet by a commission from Heaven sits as a judge upon the bench, and Jerusalem is made to hold up her hand as a prisoner at the bar; and, if prophets were set over other…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Cf. Eze 21:7, "every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble."