פירוש על ישעיהו 64:2

When You performed against the Egyptians and against all the adversaries awesome deeds, that we did not hope You would perform all those awesome deeds, for we were unworthy of them.

בעשותך When thou didst.

You descended to Mount Sinai, then mountains dripped from before You. In this manner, Dunash son of Labrat explained it.

נוראות Terrible things. It is an adjective, and a noun must be supplied. Comp.⁷The Hebrew text has the words כמו ועל דרך; but either כמו or ועל דרך is superfluous, because both expressions have the same meaning: like. It is also possible that the original text had a word like חלקות (30:10) after כמו which has been omitted by some careless copyist. עזות rough words (Prov. 18:20).

לא נקוה Which we looked not for.

ירדת When thou camest down. מפניך הרים נזלו Then the mountains flowed down at Thy presence. Such things Thou hast already done in the past.