Commentaire sur Isaïe 58:13
אִם־תָּשִׁ֤יב מִשַּׁבָּת֙ רַגְלֶ֔ךָ עֲשׂ֥וֹת חֲפָצֶ֖יךָ בְּי֣וֹם קָדְשִׁ֑י וְקָרָ֨אתָ לַשַּׁבָּ֜ת עֹ֗נֶג לִקְד֤וֹשׁ יְהוָה֙ מְכֻבָּ֔ד וְכִבַּדְתּוֹ֙ מֵעֲשׂ֣וֹת דְּרָכֶ֔יךָ מִמְּצ֥וֹא חֶפְצְךָ֖ וְדַבֵּ֥ר דָּבָֽר׃
Si tu cesses de fouler aux pieds le sabbat, de vaquer à tes affaires en ce jour qui m’est consacré, si tu considères le sabbat comme un délice, la sainte journée de l’Éternel comme digne de respect, si tu le tiens en honneur en t’abstenant de suivre tes voies ordinaires, de t’occuper de tes intérêts et d’en faire le sujet de tes entretiens,
Ibn Ezra on Isaiah
If thou turn away, etc. The Lord will lead thee continually (ver. 11), if thou keep back thy foot from the sabbath; or, thou shalt be called the restorer, etc. (ver. 12), if thou turn, etc., both explanations are equally admissible.17The difference between the two explanations can hardly be seen, for if the sentence, If thou turn away, etc., is the protasis to And the Lord shall guide thee, etc., (ver. 11), the words Thou shalt be called, etc., are part of the apodosis, which includes verses 11 and 12. The following conjecture suggests itself as probable: The words או הוא דבק עם משובב נתיבות are the product of some careless copyist, who omitted the word אז after עם, and erroneously repeated, perhaps, from the preceding line the words נתיבות משובב, which must therefore be struck out. The remark of I. E., thus emended, would tell us that the conditional sentence, If thou turn, etc., may be connected with the preceding verses as well as with the succeeding. משבת From walking on sabbath.
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Ibn Ezra on Isaiah
From doing thy pleasure. Repetition of the same idea.
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Ibn Ezra on Isaiah
And thou wilt call the sabbath a delight, that thou wilt do no work on it, and thy soul will rejoice in reading the words of the Law.
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