Therefore have I hewed them] I have severely reproved, chidden and threatned them by my Prophets, to set them upright, like as is done to a knotty and crooked peece of timber. I have slain them] I have judged and condemned them to death. See 1 Kings 19:17. Jeremiah 1:10. 2 Corinthians 10:5-6. and thy judgements are as the light] Or, that thy judgment might be as the light. My threatnings, and the sentence which I have pronounced against thee, hath every morning been declared unto them by my Prophets, Jeremiah 7:13. and Jeremiah 11:7. and Jeremiah 35:14. that seeming to be the hour which was appointed for the Prophets preaching.