Hosea 6:5

Mouth. I have ordered my prophets to denounce death unto them, and to treat them roughly, like a piece of marble designed for a statue. Septuagint, &c., "I have slain thy prophets," &c., by Elias, Jehu, &c. The former sense is preferable. --- Thy judgments, or condemnation. (Calmet) --- Hebrew, "and thy judgments light shall go forth." (Haydock) --- Pocock labours hard, but in vain, to explain this; as all the old versions, except the Vulgate have, "my judgments as the light," &c. Hebrew letters may probably have been ill joined, (Kennicott) as Meibomius suspects they have been also, Jeremias xxiii. 33. Here umospoti caur, "my judgments as the light," &c., is exchanged for umishpatec or. This would be very easy when words were written undivided, as in ancient manuscripts. (Haydock) --- "Some transcriber upon hearing umishpatecaor, from the person dictating to him, writ umishpateca or instead of umishpate caor. (Kennicott, Diss. 1.)