Commentary for Malachi 3:11
וְגָעַרְתִּ֤י לָכֶם֙ בָּֽאֹכֵ֔ל וְלֹֽא־יַשְׁחִ֥ת לָכֶ֖ם אֶת־פְּרִ֣י הָאֲדָמָ֑ה וְלֹא־תְשַׁכֵּ֨ל לָכֶ֤ם הַגֶּ֙פֶן֙ בַּשָּׂדֶ֔ה אָמַ֖ר יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֽוֹת׃
And I will rebuke the devourer for your good, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your land; Neither shall your vine cast its fruit before the time in the field, Saith the LORD of hosts.
Rashi on Malachi
And I will rebuke the devourer for your sake The finishing locusts and the shearing locusts, which devour the grain of your field and your vines.
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Radak on Malachi
I will rebuke, against the devourer. Against the locusts which devours the produce.
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Radak on Malachi
and will not miscarry for you the vines. The vines will not miscarry its produce. (here we see classic example of Semitic languages have a different syntax that Germanic / Roman / Slavic which have Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) while as Semitic languages have Verb-Subject-Object (VSO), so Radak is reminding us to first find the subject and only then to translate the verb, and he is adding the word ''its fruit'', to helping us to figure out hidden object in the sentence.)
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