Tafsiran Yesaya 54:14: Tze'enah Ure'enah, Rashi & Ibn Ezra

“You will be established through righteousness, etc.” [54:14]. When you will give charity³The word “zedakah” can mean either righteousness or charity. The biblical context uses it in the first sense, but the author chose to translate it in the second sense. and act justly, then you will have honor and you will not be preyed upon. You will have no fear or anxiety. No anxiety will come to you.

go far away from oppression [Although grammatically this is the imperative, here it is the future,] like (supra 52:2) “Shake yourself from the dust.” You will be far away from those who oppress you.

תכנני Shalt thou be established. It is Hithpael. The ת is omitted and compensated by the Dagesh in the כ. In righteousness, etc. Israel will do justice to all, and will oppress no people, as the heathen nations are used to do.²⁷המלכים the kings of the Hebrew text is perhaps a corruption of המלכות, a general term, used to signify the governments by which the Israelites were kept in a sort of slavery and degradation.

Printed editions of Rashi contain the following addendum: (go far away from oppression You will stay far from oppressing other peoples in the manner the wicked do, that they accumulate money through robbery, but you will not need to rob, for you will not fear poverty or straits, or ruin, for it shall neither come nor shall it approach you. [Abarbanel])

(With righteousness that you will perform, you will be established with an everlasting redemption, and you will be far from people’s oppression for you will not fear; you will not even have terror or fear of them, and you will be far from ruin, for it will not come near you. [Ayalah Sheluchah])