Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Yeremia 5:9

A kabbalistic approach: the word נפשי when applied to G’d is a reference to the Shechinah, an attribute of the Lord. We have another example of the use of this word in that sense in Psalms 24,4 אשר לא נשא לשוא נפשו, “who did not utter a false oath using His attribute of נפש.” The formula swearing an oath had first been used in the Ten Commandments where G’d forbade mentioning His name in vain with the words לא תשא את שם ה' אלוקיך לשוא, “do not utter the name of the Lord your G’d in vain” (Exodus 207). At that point Onkelos translated the same words i.e. לשום את שמו in Deut. 12,5 as לאשראה שכינתה, “to verify the Shechinah.” [The author quotes a number of scriptural texts all of which are supposed to prove that the attribute referred to here as נפש is the attribute of Justice. Seeing that the Torah had already mentioned that G’d had established His Sanctuary among us, i.e. that His presence was amongst the Jewish people, it would be a repetition to understand the word נפשי in our verse as a reference to the same attribute. It is far more likely then to refer to the attribute of Justice, and the Torah promises that even that attribute will not reject the Jewish people. One example where the word נפשי is obviously a reference to that attribute is Jeremiah 5,9 ואם בגוי אשר כזה לא תתנקם נפשי, “shall I not bring retribution to a nation such as this?” I have paraphrased and condensed this somewhat. Ed.]