Commentary for Isaiah 30:10
אֲשֶׁ֨ר אָמְר֤וּ לָֽרֹאִים֙ לֹ֣א תִרְא֔וּ וְלַ֣חֹזִ֔ים לֹ֥א תֶחֱזוּ־לָ֖נוּ נְכֹח֑וֹת דַּבְּרוּ־לָ֣נוּ חֲלָק֔וֹת חֲז֖וּ מַהֲתַלּֽוֹת׃
That say to the seers: ‘See not’, and to the prophets: ‘Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy delusions;
Rashi on Isaiah
smooth talk Flattery.
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Ibn Ezra on Isaiah
See not. You shall not prophesy.
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Rashi on Isaiah
prophesy (חֲזוּ, lit., envision) prophesy.
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Ibn Ezra on Isaiah
לראים To the seers. To those that see a divine vision.
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Ibn Ezra on Isaiah
נכחות Upright things. Comp. טובים ונכוחים דבריך thy words are good and upright (2 Sam. 15:3). It is an adjective.10See c. iii. Note 5. I. E. does not explain why חלקות is a substantive (שם), and נבחות an adjective (שם התואר); perhaps because the verb דברו implies the masculine substantive, דברים words, with which the feminine חלקות, if taken as an adjective, would not agree.
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Ibn Ezra on Isaiah
דברי חלקות ═ חלקות words of flattery; חלקות is a substantive; so also דברי מהתלות ═ מהתלות, words of mockery.
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