Commentaire sur Isaïe 28:16
לָכֵ֗ן כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה הִנְנִ֛י יִסַּ֥ד בְּצִיּ֖וֹן אָ֑בֶן אֶ֣בֶן בֹּ֜חַן פִּנַּ֤ת יִקְרַת֙ מוּסָ֣ד מוּסָּ֔ד הַֽמַּאֲמִ֖ין לֹ֥א יָחִֽישׁ׃
Mais ainsi a parlé le Seigneur, l’Éternel: Voici, je vais, dans Sion, ériger une pierre de fondation, une pierre éprouvée, une précieuse pierre d’angle solidement fixée; quiconque s’y appuiera ne sera pas réduit à fuir.
Rashi on Isaiah
Behold, I have laid a foundation This is the past tense. Comp. (Esther 1:8) “For so had the king established (יִסַּד).” And so must it be interpreted: Behold, I am He Who has already laid [a stone in Zion. Already] a decree has been decreed before Me, and I have set up the King Messiah, who shall be in Zion as an אֶבֶן בּוֹחֵן, a fortress stone, an expression of a fortress and strength. Comp. (infra 32:14) “A tower and a fortress (וּבֹחֵן).” Comp. also (supra 23:13) “They erected its towers (בַּחוּנָיו).”
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Ibn Ezra on Isaiah
הנני יִסַּד I will lay the foundation. יסד is an adjective,19יסד and שבח, according to I. E., may also be considered as participles of the Piël, the preformative מְ of the Piël and Pual being sometimes dropped. derived from a Piel like אִבַּד he hath destroyed (Lam. 2:9).20The Piël past has two forms, פִּעְל and פִּעַל; it is with the latter that יִסַּד is compared, and therefore אִבַּד is quoted. Comp. Zahoth, On the Piël. Comp. ושבח אני and I praise (Koh. 4:2); which is likewise transitive.
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Rashi on Isaiah
a foundation well founded (מוּסַד מוּסָּד). The first one is voweled with a pattah because it is in the construct state, a foundation of a foundation, which is a solid foundation.
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Ibn Ezra on Isaiah
בחן Tower.21A. V., Tried. Comp. ובוחן and towers (32:14). Zion will be protected against the King of Assyria.
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Rashi on Isaiah
the believer shall not hasten Whoever believes this word shall not hasten it. He shall not say, “If it is true, let it come quickly.”
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Ibn Ezra on Isaiah
מוסד מוסד A sure foundation. The first מוסד is a noun, meaning foundation; it is a genitive, governed by the preceding noun יקרת the value of; the second is a participle Hophal, like מוסב; the ס has therefore a Dagesh, as a substitute for the omitted silent letter (ו).22The Hebrew text has לבלוע הכפל to compensate for the omission of the duplicate; this does not refer to the ד, since the root is not סדד, but to the omission of ו, which is also noticed by the Masora; there should be two ו, one the mater lectionis, the other the first letter of the root. Comp. Zahoth, On the Hiphil.
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Ibn Ezra on Isaiah
Shall not make haste. For this prophecy refers to a very remote future.
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