פירוש על ישעיהו 5:6

And I will make it a desolation Heb. בָתָה, an expression of desolation and emptiness. Compare (infra 7:19): “in the desolate valleys (הַבַּתּוֹת).”

בתה Waste. Comp. בתות The desolate places (7:19).

nor hoed Heb. יֵעָדֵר ; this is an expression of digging in a vineyard.

יזמר It shall be pruned. זמורה branch is of the same root; זמר means to dress the vineyard by cutting off the branches.

the shamir and desolation will come up Heb. שָׁמִיר וָשָׁיִת. Menahem ben Seruk interprets them as kinds of thorns (Machbereth Menahem p. 176), but I say that “shamir” is a word denoting a strong worm that splits stones, with which Solomon built the Temple, like the matter that is written (Ezekiel 3:19), “Like a shamir, stronger than rock.”

יעדר It shall be digged. עדר to dig, to prepare the vineyard by digging (comp. 7:25).

desolation Heb. שַׁיִת, an expression similar to (Lamentations 3:47), “desolation (הַשְׁאֵת) and breach,” an expression similar to (infra 6:11), “shall be made desolate (תִּשָּׁאֶה) [as a wilderness”; i.e., it will be] empty with no one seeking it to enter it, and thereby worms will overrun it.

שמיר ושית Two kinds of thorns. The application of this figure is The wicked will increase.

I put him on his side, that I did not give him the Torah in his days.

The clouds. The prophets are hereby meant; comp. Her prophets also find no vision from the Lord (Lam. 2:9).¹²Compare Let my doctrine drop like rain, let my word distil as the dew, etc. (Deut. 32:2).

They did not learn from it not Zechus or good deeds.

The Yetzer Horah ruled him and in the other generations for them to do disgusting things.

I commanded him to keep guard and to guard the way of life.