“Son of man, set your face toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them.
God sends me to confront the Ammonites with the same boldness as a prophet set his face as flint against them. Though I have long spoken against Israel's sins, I have never wavered in my love for God's covenant people; and now I must face down these proud enemies who gloated over Israel's ruin.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 25:1-7
Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites,.... Who were of the posterity of Lot, implacable enemies of the Jews; who hated their religion, and envied their wealth and happiness; against these the prophet is bid to "set his face"; to look that way where they lived, and to put on a frowning countenance, and a menacing aspect: "strengthen thy face", as the Septuagint...
Set thy face against the Ammonites - We have already seen, Eze 21:19, etc., that when Nebuchadnezzar left Babylon he was in doubt whether he should besiege Riblath, the capital of the Ammonites, or Jerusalem, the capital of the Jews, first: and having used his divination. he was determined, by the result, to attack Jerusalem the first.