פירוש על תהילים 9:15

That I may recount: – so that, when I am delivered from those that hate me, I may recount

all Thy praises: in the gates of the daughter of Sion: – for there shall be the thanks-giving, and songs and psalms shall be uttered there, for there the Glory shall rest.

I will exult in Thy deliverance: – i.e. the deliverance which Thou shalt effect for me from every single enemy I have. And he says in the gates of (in the same sense as in the verse) "to the gate unto the elders" (Deut. 25:7); and the word תְּהִלָּתֶיךָ is written with yodh (in the suffix), for he intends to speak of many praises. It lacks the complete sign of the plural feminine, having the plural masculine suffix termination only. And similar examples are: " I am wearied in the multitude of thy counsels " (עֲצָתָיִךְ, Is. 47:13); "And thy sisters (וַאֲחוֹתַיִךְ, Ezek. 16:55), Sodom and her daughters" (see the interpretation our rabbi (ad loc.) gives). And in that he says here all Thy praises; and in another place (Ps. 106:2) asks, "Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord?" David says, I will shew forth all Thy praises. In spite of all the troubles which came upon him, he gave praise and (made) confession to God, who delivered him from the enemies; but when he comes to narrate the wondrous signs He had given Israel generation after generation, he asks, "Who can make known all His praise ?" And so the individual alone is not able to tell the wondrous signs of goodness and mercy which the Holy One – Blessed be He ! – worketh for him, as he says (ibid. 40:6), "If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered." For sometimes God – Blessed be He ! – does a wondrous sign for a man who is unaware of it until later when he reflects upon it. And so our rabbis of blessed memory have said (Babli, Niddah 31 a), "Even he to whom the wondrous sign happens does not recognise it." And when David says all Thy praises, he speaks of the wondrous signs which He had wrought for him which were evident and known to all in the war with the enemies.