Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Mazmur 2:12

For fear of the nights. For if they forget it, and troubles will befall them. And similarly it states, “Arm yourselves with the grain lest He become angry and you lose the way.”¹⁰I.e., study the Torah.

לנשק לבני ולבנותי, “to provide my sons and daughters with parting gifts;” although the word נשק appears primarily as meaning “to kiss,” it is also the same word (as a noun) meaning neshek, “weapons,” in the sense of the equipment needed for survival, as we know from Psalms 2,12: נשקו בר, “gird yourselves;”

For they are a nation lacking counsel The enemies of Israel are the referred-to nation. The word lacking, a participle in the construct case (hence the pattaḥ under the vet), here serves as an adjective. It is well known that lacking is an intransitive verb; the word counsel simply explains that which they are lacking. Compare “withered of her leaves” [Isaiah 1: 30]. See also “lost from the way” [Psalms 2: 12], where the construct case is predicated on the word “way”. Accordingly, the translator who rendered “they have lost counsel”, translated wisely.

ישק —The Targum renders it by יתזן which means SHALL BE FED — all my people’s needs shall be provided through you. Similar are (15:2) “and the steward (ובן משק) of my house”, and (Psalms 2:12) “Provide yourselves (נשקו) with purity” old French garnison.