Commento su Ezechiele 26:27

in the eleventh [year] of Zedekiah.

Jerusalem which was under siege.

because Tyre said – Tyre had a covenant with Jerusalem all the days of David and Shlomo and was not rejoicing over its fall out of hatred, rather they rejoiced because they thought that they would derive benefit from it. This is why the verse says ‘Aha! The doors of the peoples have been broken,’ because Jerusalem was the market city and all the peoples brought their wares there. It was called ‘the doors of the peoples’ because they all entered this door. Through this breaking ‘it has turned to me,’ and all the commerce will be in Tyre. One can also say that Jerusalem was called ‘the doors of the peoples’ because it stood before the peoples who lived in the south, east and north, whose path to Tyre was via the land of Israel and its surroundings. It was like a closed door, through which one cannot enter until it is opened. Now that the door has been opened through its destruction ‘it has turned to me.’ This second explanation fits the end of the verse ‘I shall become full from the destroyed city,’ that their houses were filled from the destruction of Jerusalem. This is as it is written “And also, what are you to Me, Tyre and Sidon and all the regions of Philistia… For My silver and My gold you took, and My goodly treasures you have brought into your temples. And the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem you have sold…” (Joel 4:4-6) They despoiled, plundered and gathered silver and slaves and filled themselves from the destruction and the spoils.

Aha! [Heb. הֶאָח,] an expression of a shout of joy.

The doors of the peoples have been broken A city through which all the nations enter for commerce will now be broken, for the siege will not leave it until it is taken.

it has turned to me From now on, the merchandise of the nations has turned on me.

I shall become full from the destroyed [city] I shall become full from the destroyed city of Jerusalem.

and I shall remove [Heb. וְסִחֵיתִי,] and I shall uproot, like (Prov. 15:25): “The Lord will uproot (יִסַח) the house of the haughty;” (Deut. 28:63); “and you will be uprooted (וְנִסַחְתֶם) from...”

a smooth rock Since it was built on a rock in the midst of the sea, when it will be demolished and its earth will be uprooted into the sea, the rock will be left bare, and so did Jonathan render: a smooth, bare rock.

a place to spread out nets On the rock the fishermen will spread out their fishing nets, to dry them.

And her daughters that are in the field the villages that are subservient to her, surrounding her.

and will station against you shields [Heb. צִנָה,] and will station against you those armed with shields.

And...his catapult [Heb. וּמְחִי קָבָלוֹ.] This is one of the devices of the siege, to throw huge rocks and to strike opposite it, e la hone de sa pereyre in Old French, and the striking of his stone-throwing machine. Others render קָבָלוֹ as desarbalete in Old French, of his war-machines.

with his instruments of destruction [Heb. בְּחַרְבּוֹתָיו,] with tools of destruction that he will bring with him.

From the abundance of his horses When there are many horses, they raise dust with their feet, which ascends and becomes like a cloud, darkening the earth. This is called שִּׁפְּעַת, an abundance. Similarly, (Job 22:11): “or an abundance of (וְשִּׁפְּעַת) water covers you,” de la foison in French, of abundance.

as men enter a breached city as they enter a city that has been breached of its wall(Targum), that its wall has been breached.

your merchandise [as translated], your merchandise.

and they will tremble for [fear of] destruction [Heb. לִרְגָעִים,] for fear of destruction, lest it befall them like your destruction.

לִרְגָעִים as is an expression of breaking, like (Isa. 51:15): “Who splits (ַרוֹגַע) the sea;” (Job 7:5), “my skin split (רָגַע);” (Ps. 35:20), “and against the crushed people of (רִגְעֵי) the earth,” [synonymous with] דִכְּאֵי “the crushed people of the earth.” Menachem, however, explained it (p. 162) in the sense of רֶגַע, a moment, as in (Ps. 30:6): “For His wrath lasts but a moment (רֶגַע).”

and will be appalled [Heb. וְשָּׁמְמוּ,] an expression of bewilderment.

established from the seas [Heb. מִיָמִּים.] Some vocalize it without a “dagesh” (מִיָמִים) and interpret it to mean “settled from days of yore,” and others punctuate it with a “dagesh” (מִיַמִּים) and interpret it to mean “settled with strength through the seas surrounding her,” and so it is.

who cast terror around to all the inhabitants.

Heb. חִתִּיתָם, lur defre[n]emant in Old French, their terror.

the isles [Heb. הָאִיִן,] like הָאִייִם.

by your departure by your departure into exile.

when [I] bring up the deep upon you “When I bring upon you companies of nations as numerous as the waters of the deep, and many nations will cover you.” Jonathan translated it in this manner, but according to its apparent meaning, first it was given into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, and ultimately, the sea came up and inundated it.

with those who descend into the Pit with those who descend into Gehinnom.

to a people of old with the other nations who are there from long ago.

like the ruins of old like the cities that were destroyed from times of yore, viz. Sodom and her sister cities.

but I shall bestow beauty upon the land of the living And I shall bestow beauty upon Jerusalem.

a nonentity [Heb. בַּלָהוֹת.] Jonathan explained בַּלָהוֹת [as] as if you did not exist, and the exegetes explain it as a word for a place where the satyrs and demons dance.