כִּֽי־כְאִשָּׁ֧ה עֲזוּבָ֛ה וַעֲצ֥וּבַת ר֖וּחַ קְרָאָ֣ךְ יְהוָ֑ה וְאֵ֧שֶׁת נְעוּרִ֛ים כִּ֥י תִמָּאֵ֖ס אָמַ֥ר אֱלֹהָֽיִךְ׃
Sebab Yang Mahakekal telah memanggil engkau seperti seorang istri yang ditinggalkan dan bersedih hati, seperti istri masa muda ketika ia ditolak, firman Allahmu.
Degel Machaneh Ephraim
The heart of Pharaoh is hard, he refuses to let the people go. There is a need to comment about this since this language is only used in the first plague, which was blood; moreover, the hardness of his heart was not known so much yet. But behold, I have heard about this in the name of my child's father-in-law, the famous rabbi, our master, Rabbi Lipa from the holy congregation of Chmielnik, and I believe that I saw it afterward written in a midrash, that with Pharoah, his heart was transformed and turned into a liver. To here [is what he said]. And behold it is well-known that evil does not come from Him, may He be blessed. Rather the evil that comes to a person, God forbid, is the iniquity itself that afflicts him, and the work of his hands shall be done to him [alluding to Isaiah 3:11]. Let your evil reprove you [alluding to Jeremiah 2:19], and You have consumed us by means of our iniquities [alluding to Isaiah 54:6], God forbid. Therefore, the punishment is certainly similar to the offense and the evil that he did. And one can say about this, that the reason the first plague was the plague of blood was that it was from the same idea as the offense and his sin. For his evil was that his heart became a liver; from that sin, the destruction was created, and the plague of blood came to him from that. For it was similar to the liver, since there is much blood in [the liver]. And it can be said in a poetic way that this is what the sages, may their memory be blessed, hinted to [by saying] that the Children of Israel became wealthy from the plague of blood. As it is well-known that all of the plagues were illnesses and remedies — illnesses for the Egyptians and remedies for the Jewish people. And it is as it is found in the holy books of the rabbi from Polnoye, may his memory be blessed: That He prepared a bandage from the plague itself, meaning that the same thing that was an illness for Egypt was a remedy for the Jewish people, as is explained there at length, see there. And behold, the Egyptians had a plague from the liver here, a plague of blood [dam]. But [damim] means two things. And with the Jewish people, it was according to the second meaning, which is money; so it made the Jewish people wealthy. And there are more things [like this]. These things are hidden and unrevealed; one who pauses and contemplates very well can find amazing things in them.