פירוש על ישעיהו 52:5

And now, what have I here Why do I stay and detain My children here?

מה לי פה What have I here, any more.⁵After the people has been carried away into captivity. It is an anthropomorphism. It might also mean, what reason have I to be silent,

boast Heb. יְהֵילִילוּ, Boast saying, “Our hand was powerful.”

that my people is taken away for nought by Babylon, Edom, and other nations.

is blasphemed Blasphemes itself, and this is an instance similar to (Num 7:89) “And he heard the voice speaking to him.”

ומשליו And they that rule over them, that is, the princes of Israel, or His poets; comp. המשלים they that speak in proverbs (Num. 21:27).

יהילילו Hoẇl.⁶A. V., Make them to howl. The ה, the characteristic of the Hiphil, is here not omitted, as is usually the case.

מתנאץ═מנאץ Is blasphemed. The Dagesh in נ compensates for the omitted ת.⁷I. E. does not describe this form as a compound of Hithpael and Pual, but as the Hithpolel, which is a conjugation by itself, regularly formed of verbs ע״ו and ע״ע, but exceptionally of other verbs.