22:13 “‘See, I strike my hands together 1 at the dishonest profit you have made, and at the bloodshed 2 they have done among you. 22:14 Can your heart endure, 3 or can your hands be strong when I deal with you? 4 I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it! 22:15 I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you. 5 22:16 You will be profaned within yourself 6 in the sight of the nations; then you will know that I am the Lord.’”
1 sn This gesture apparently expresses mourning and/or anger (see 6:11; 21:14, 17).
2 tn Heb “the blood which was in you.”
3 tn Heb “stand.” The heart here stands for the emotions; Jerusalem would panic in the face of God’s judgment.
4 tn Heb “in the days when I act against you.”
5 sn The ultimate purpose of divine judgment is to purify the covenant community of its sins.
7 tc Several ancient versions read the verb as first person, in which case the Lord refers to how his people’s sin brings disgrace upon him. For a defense of the Hebrew text, see D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:712, n. 68, and M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:457-58.