Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezekiel 24:20

"Then I said unto them, The word of Jehovah came unto me, saying," — Ezekiel 24:20 (ASV)

That which your soul pitieth. —In the margin the pity of your soul. The word rather means in this connection love, in the sense of the object of love: “that which your soul loves.” The expression in the original is a difficult one, and is used by Ezekiel on account of the alliteration with the previous clause: “the machmad of your eyes, and the machmal of your souls.” (Compare the parallel in Ezekiel 24:25: That whereupon they set their minds.)