Ezekiel 5:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

As I live; a form of an oath becoming none but the living God, used often in Scripture and in this prophet. Defiled; violated and profaned. My sanctuary; my temple. With all thy detestable things; not that all they did abominably was done in the temple; but either because they never heeded how they were polluted, but with legal pollutions on them came to the temple; or rather, brought in their idols, all their detestable counterfeit gods, as Jeremiah 7:30, and, in 2 Kings 16:10, 2 Kings 23:12,13, their own altars, as Ahaz and Manasseh. All their idolatry and wickednesses, expressed by two words of like emphasis. Diminish; lessen, break to pieces, cut up by the roots such stinking weeds. Neither shall mine eye spare; there shall not be the least sign of pity in my eye, though I see all their misery. Neither will I have pity; nor yet will I retain any affection of kindness for them; my heart, as my eye, shall be far from all pity and commiseration towards them.

Ezekiel 5:11

11 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.