Commentaire sur Les Psaumes 18:5
אֲפָפ֥וּנִי חֶבְלֵי־מָ֑וֶת וְֽנַחֲלֵ֖י בְלִיַּ֣עַל יְבַֽעֲתֽוּנִי׃
Déjà m’enveloppaient les liens de la mort, les torrents de la perdition me faisaient frémir;
Rashi on Psalms
Bands of death have encompassed me On many occasions wicked men have surrounded me. אפפוני is like סבבוני. Similarly (below 40:13), “For countless evils...have encompassed (אפפו) me.”
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Rashi on Psalms
Bands of death Heb. חבלי, camps of enemies, as (in I Sam. 10:5): “a band (חבל) of prophets.” But Jonathan renders: as a woman who sits on a birthstool, an expression of the pangs (חבלי) of a woman in confinement.
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Rashi on Psalms
and streams of scoundrels That too is an expression of troops that flood like a stream.
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