Commentary for Isaiah 24:15

Therefore, for the lights (בָּאֻרִים). Jonathan paraphrases: When lights come to the righteous, concerning the two good tidings, both that of the redemption from Babylon and that of Edom. ([Most manuscripts read:] Jonathan paraphrases: When lights come to the righteous, concerning the two lights, etc.) And Menachem stated (Machbereth, p. 32) that אֻרִים is an expression of holes and crevices where they were fleeing, and so (Gen. 11:28): “אוּר, the valley of the Chaldees,” and so (supra 11: 8): “And on the hole (מְאוּרַת) of an adder,” the hole of its dwelling.

באורים Some explain it, In the countries; comp. כשרים אור the land of the Chaldæans²³The same phrase is also quoted in favour of the second explanation. See Rashi. (Gen. 11:31); others: In valleys. The former explanation is the right one.

שם The name. Supply כבדו glorify; for the verb כבדו in the first half of the sentence refers also to the second. They (ver. 14) can also be explained to refer to the righteous.²⁴With this remark I. E. reverts to the first mentioned opinion, that these chapters (xxiv.—xxvii.) refer to the period of Gog and Magog. According to this opinion the prophet speaks in ver. 14, of the righteous people, that will then receive the reward for their faith in God; ידנו and צהלו retain according to this explanation their usual meaning, they sing. In the following part the commentary is based on this same supposition, while that of R. Moses Hakkohen is only incidentally mentioned, as if to show that it can really be maintained throughout the whole portion from xxiv. unto xxvii.