5:11 “Therefore, as surely as I live, says the sovereign Lord, because you defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominable practices, I will withdraw; my eye will not pity you, nor will I spare 1 you.
“‘Your heart is proud 3 and you said, “I am a god; 4
I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas” –
yet you are a man and not a god,
though you think you are godlike. 5
1 tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.
2 tn Or “ruler” (NIV, NCV).
3 tn Heb “lifted up.”
sn See Prov 16:5.
4 tn Or “I am divine.”
5 tn Heb “and you made your heart (mind) like the heart (mind) of gods.”