Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets - Since they despised God’s gentler warnings and measures, He used more severe ones. “H…

The Septuagint renders, Therefore I have mowed down their prophets; but this would destroy the parallelism, in which “prophets” correspond…

God shows here, by His prophet, that He was compelled by urgent necessity to deal harshly and roughly with the people. We know that nothing is more…

Therefore has I hewed [them] by the prophets; I have slain
them by the words of my mouth