8 Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
8 But I will make you as unyielding and hardened as they are.
8 Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.
8 But I'll make you as hard in your way as they are in theirs.
8 Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads.
8 But look, I have made you as obstinate and hard-hearted as they are.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 3:8
Commentary on Ezekiel 3:1-11
(Read Ezekiel 3:1-11)
Ezekiel was to receive the truths of God as the food for his soul, and to feed upon them by faith, and he would be strengthened. Gracious souls can receive those truths of God with delight, which speak terror to the wicked. He must speak all that, and that only, which God spake to him. How can we better speak God's mind than with his words? If disappointed as to his people, he must not be offended. The Ninevites were wrought upon by Jonah's preaching, when Israel was unhumbled and unreformed. We must leave this unto the Divine sovereignty, and say, Lord, thy judgments are a great deep. They will not regard the word of the prophet, for they will not regard the rod of God. Christ promises to strengthen him. He must continue earnest in preaching, whatever the success might be.