Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 6:6
I desired mercy, and not sacrifice - I taught them righteousness by my prophets; for I desired mercy. I was more willing to save than to destroy; and would rather see them full of penitent and holy resolutions, than behold them offering the best and most numerous victims upon my altar. See Matthew 9:13 . read more
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 6:5
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 יצא אור ומשפטיך umispateycha or yetse , "and thy judgments a light that goeth forth," the versions in general have read כאור ומשפטי umishpati keor , "and my judgment... read more