How weak-willed is your heart, declares the Lord GOD, while you do all these things, the acts of a shameless prostitute!
The Prophet seems at variance with himself when he compares the Jews to a robust or very strong woman, and yet says that their heart was dissolute. For those who translate an obstinate heart are without a reason for it, for this seems to imply some kind of resistance, as they were strong and bold, and yet of a soft or weak or infirm heart.
In these verses we have an account of the great wickedness of the people of Israel, especially in worshipping idols, notwithstanding the great favours that God had conferred upon them, by which, one would think, they should have been for ever engaged to him.
Commenting on Ezekiel 16:15-34
In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way,.... Or brothel house, as before; See Gill on Eze 16:24; which showed her to be a whore, and an imperious one: and makest thine high place in every street; See Gill on Eze 16:24; and hast not been as an harlot: a common one, or as a harlot usually is: in that...