פירוש על ישעיהו 55:12

For with joy shall you go forth from the exile.

For you shall go out with joy. You will go out from the exile joyfully.

the mountains and the hills shall burst into song before you for they will give you their fruit and their plants, and their inhabitants shall derive benefit. ([Some editions read:] And their inhabitants shall sing.)

And be led forth with peace to your land on horses and mules. If this passage be referred to the Babylonian exile, it was indeed literally fulfilled.¹⁷Comp. Ezr. 1:3, sqq. But if it is understood to allude to a future redemption, in that case comp. And they shall bring all your brethren upon horses, etc. (66:20). Some refer it to both.¹⁸To the Babylonian exile and the Roman exile.

ימחאו Shall clap. This verb is frequently met with in the Chaldee.¹⁹Comp. Dan. 2:35, 5:19. ומחה and shall reach (Num. 34:11) is of the same root.²⁰The two verbs compared by I. E. are not the same, the one is ל״ה, the other ל״א; but א and ה interchange. The word מגזרת before ומחה seems to be a corruption of ומגזרתו; since ימחאו is not derived from מחה, but the latter is, in the one passage quoted here, exceptionally used in the sense of מחא, to join, to clap, or to strike.