Commentaire de citation sur Les Psaumes 80:11

ורוח אלוקים, the word רוח here is in the construct mode, to indicate that it functioned as an agent of its Creator, of G’d. Its assignment had been to provide the necessary motion over the waters and to help dry them out in a manner of speaking, as explained by Ibn Ezra. It is also possible that the reason it appears in this mode is because it is such a powerful agent of G’d that it sometimes appears to have Divine force. It is quite common in our use of language that when we want to stress the power of someone or something, we somehow associate it with the name of G’d. In the Book of Jonah the city of Nineveh is thus described as עיר גדולה לאלוקים, (Jonah 3,3) and Psalms 36,7 uses the expression כהררי א-ל, in order to describe towering mountains. [The author quotes more such examples].

"And he got up...a city great to God."- [When it comes to] anything which one wants to enlarge, [one should] juxtapose it with God in a way that increases its size, like [it says in the following phrases]: "Like the mountains of God," (Tehillim 36:7) "The cedars of God,"(Tehillim 80:11) "A flame of God from its darkness."

dürre Äste abschneiden. מקרסמין wie מכרסמין nach Psalm 80, 11 יכרסמנה חזיר מיער. »Das Schwein aus dem Walde benagt ihn (den Weinstock.) Schneidet ihm die Zweige mit seinen Zähnen ab.