John Gill Commentary Ezekiel 16:30

"How weak is thy heart, saith the Lord Jehovah, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an impudent harlot;" — Ezekiel 16:30 (ASV)

How weak is your heart, says the Lord God

Through sin; and being destitute of the grace of God, and so unable to resist any temptation, or oppose any corruption or lust, but carried away with everyone that offers; indulging every lust, and yet not satisfied; weak as water, unstable, fickle, and inconstant, seeking after new gods, and new kinds of worship.

The Targum is, ``how strong is the wickedness of your heart!'' the stronger the wickedness of the heart, the weaker, the heart is:

seeing you do all these [things]

all the idolatries before mentioned; which was an argument not of her strength, but weakness, and yet of boldness, impudence, and resolution, to have her will:

the work of an imperious whorish woman

a whore, as she is impudent, is imperious, is one that rules and governs. The Targum is, who rules over herself; does what she pleases, will have her will and way, and cannot bear any contradiction; and who rules over others, such as are her gallants, obliging them to do as she commands.

Jarchi's note is, ``over whom her imagination (or corruption) rules.''