22:13 “‘See, I strike my hands together 3 at the dishonest profit you have made, and at the bloodshed 4 they have done among you. 22:14 Can your heart endure, 5 or can your hands be strong when I deal with you? 6 I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it!
1 tc The MT reads “his hand” while many Hebrew
2 tc The phrase “along with their entire bodies” is absent from the LXX and may be a gloss explaining the following words.
3 sn This gesture apparently expresses mourning and/or anger (see 6:11; 21:14, 17).
4 tn Heb “the blood which was in you.”
5 tn Heb “stand.” The heart here stands for the emotions; Jerusalem would panic in the face of God’s judgment.
6 tn Heb “in the days when I act against you.”
7 tn Heb “and upright men will judge them (with) the judgment of adulteresses and the judgment of those who shed blood.”
8 tn Heb “with all your scorn in (the) soul.”