Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.
I will not meet (thee as) a man - whose compassion thou mightest move, or whose might thou couldest resist, but as God, whose justice thou hast arrayed against thee, and whose power thou canst not resist. Rather, 'I will not meet a man' - i:e. suffer man to intercede with me; give man an audience for thee (Jeremiah 7:16; Jeremiah 27:18) (Grotius and Horsley). Or, 'I will not make peace with any man,' before all are destroyed. (Hebrew, 'epga` (H6293), from paaga` (H6293)) - literally, strike a league with; a phrase arising from the custom of striking hands together in making a compact (Maurer). (Note, Proverbs 17:18; Proverbs 22:26; Proverbs 11:15, margin.) Or else, from striking the victims sacrificed in making treaties. The English version accords well with the Hebrew and the sense. Contrast Hosea 11:4, "I drew them with cords of a man."