as. 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.
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.