Commentaire de citation sur Isaïe 1:7

For example, Melachim I 18 records the devastation wreaked upon Yehudah by Sancheirev’s invasion of the region. Each year on Shabbat Chazon, we read Yeshayahu HaNavi’s report of the utter destruction caused by the Assyrian conquest: “Atzechem Shemama, Areichem Serufot Eish,” “your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire” (Yeshayahu 1:7). Had the Tanach been distorted to glorify Hashem (heaven forfend), why would it record this terrible destruction in addition to the later and greater Babylonian destruction?

וישתומם And wondered. Comp. שממה desolation (1:7).¹⁵שמם to be desolate, so that no word is heard; so he that wonders cannot utter a word in the first moment. Rabbi Menahem connects it with ¹⁶וישתומם is, according to the opinion of R. Menahem, formed from שתם with reduplication of the third radical. I. E. properly rejects this explanation, because the ת is not a radical, but a formative letter, the characteristic of the Hithpael, being placed after the first radical, in accordance with the rule concerning the verbs, whose first radical is a sibilant. R. Menahem is a famous grammarian of the 11th century.שתום (Num. 24:3); but he is wrong; it is improper to form וישבורר from שבר, with reduplication of the third radical.

says the Lord [The verb is in the future form to denote that] He always says this to you, like: (Num. 9:20) “By the word of the Lord they would camp (יַחֲנוּ),” also a future form. Another explanation is: Come now, let us debate. What is written above this? “Cease to do evil; learn to do good.” And after you return to Me, come now, and let us debate together, to notify Me, “We have done what is incumbent upon us; You do what is incumbent upon You;” and I say, “If your sins prove to be like crimson, they will become white as snow...”