Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets - I have sent my prophets to testify against their fickleness. They have smitten them with the most solemn and awful threatenings; they have, as it were, slain them by the words of my mouth. But to what purpose?
Thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth - Instead of umispateycha or yetse , "and thy judgments a light that goeth forth," the versions in general have read umishpati keor , "and my judgment is as the light." The final caph in the common reading has by mistake been taken from aur , and joined to mishpati ; and thus turned it from the singular to the plural number, with the postfix cha . The proper reading is, most probably, "And my judgment is as the light going forth." It shall be both evident and swift; alluding both to the velocity and splendour of light.
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