And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, [but] I will recompense their way upon their head.
Ver. 10. And as for me also.] Quapropter etiam ego, Wherefore also I; and there is a stop by an elegant aposiopesis. a
Mine eye shall not spare.] Ezekiel 5:11; Ezekiel 7:4; Ezekiel 8:18. See a just commentary upon these words, Jeremiah 9:3,17 .
a A rhetorical artifice, in which the speaker comes to a sudden halt, as if unable or unwilling to proceed. ŒD