Verse 11
as I live . Figures of speech Deesis and Anthropopatheia. App-6 .
saith the LORD = [is] Jehovah's oracle.
hast defiled . This charge is substantiated in Ezekiel 8:0 .
diminish thee . So the Western codices. Hebrew. 'egra' (with Resh = r). But the Eastern oodices read 'egda' (with Daleth = d) =. "I shall cut off", with the former reading in margin, But some codices, with two early printed editions, read "cut off" in the text.
Mine eye, &c. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6 , Ref to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 13:8 ). Compare Ezekiel 7:4 ; Ezekiel 8:18 ; Ezekiel 9:10 . App-92 .
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