Commentaire sur Isaïe 5:14
לָכֵ֗ן הִרְחִ֤יבָה שְּׁאוֹל֙ נַפְשָׁ֔הּ וּפָעֲרָ֥ה פִ֖יהָ לִבְלִי־חֹ֑ק וְיָרַ֨ד הֲדָרָ֧הּ וַהֲמוֹנָ֛הּ וּשְׁאוֹנָ֖הּ וְעָלֵ֥ז בָּֽהּ׃
C’est pour cela que le Cheol élargira son sein et ouvrira une bouche sans mesure, que s’y engouffreront tout cet éclat, cette richesse et cette foule bruyante et joyeuse.
Rashi on Isaiah
Therefore, the nether-world has expanded Retribution corresponding to deed; they expanded themselves to swallow much food and drink, and they opened their mouth to swallow, so will the nether world expand itself to swallow.
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Ibn Ezra on Isaiah
נפשה Her breath.25A. V., Herself. נפש is the breath that comes out of the mouth; comp. נפשו his breath (Job 41:21).
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and opened Heb. פָּעֲרָה.
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ופערה And opened; comp. פערו they opened (Job 29:23).
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Rashi on Isaiah
without measure Without end; and why [did the grave open] without measure? Because these people had no measure or limit to their enjoyments.
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לבלי חק Unusually.26חק statute, rule.
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shall descend There the splendor of Jerusalem.
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Ibn Ezra on Isaiah
ועלז בה And all that rejoice in it. or, and rejoicing will be—to others—at his fall. According to R. Jonah, the phrase ועלז בה And rejoicing, or laughing will be in it, describes that kind of laughter which may sometimes be noticed in people at the moment of death.
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Rashi on Isaiah
And those who rejoice therein Heb. ועלז בה. [I.e., those who rejoiced in Jerusalem, or in all the Land of Israel, with the plenty they had there, will fall into Sheol, i.e., they will die.]
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