Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Yunus 2:9

The most enigmatic of all of the elements of Yonah’s Tefilah is the phrase “Meshamrim Havlei Shav Chasdam Yaazovu” (Yonah 2:9). It is easy to translate these words - they mean “those who guard useless trivialities, abandon their kindness”. However, it is far from simple to discern the message Yonah is communicating in this passage. The Mefarshim offer a wide range of understandings.

nor do they sleep during the day, while watchmen may at least sleep during the day; comp. They that cause to watch for lying vanities, forsake their idol (Jon. 2:9).⁴A. V., They that observe lying vanities.—I. E. proves by this quotation that the expression to watch signifies sometimes to wait for help, to pray; because משמרים means they that cause to pray, and refers to the people in the ship that stirred each other up to prayer; so here also the word שמרים watchmen refers to those that feel themselves continually stirred up to pray to the Almighty for the restoration of Jerusalem and the temple. The prophet himself explains the expression watchmen by the words המזכירים את יי that remind the Lord. מזכירים is a causative verb; lit., that cause the Lord to remember; comp. הזכירני put me in remembrance (43:26)