Commento su Isaia 14:11

the stirring of your psalteries The psalteries and harps that used to play before you. It is also possible to interpret, הֶמְיַתנְבָלֶיךָ as, the stirring of the wanton ones, who commit wanton acts, of your armies, and it seems to me that in the great Masorah, this was combined with (Amos 5:21) “The song of your psalteries,” in the aleph-beth of two meanings.

יצע Was spread. It is the past,⁶Piel. of יצע. like יֻלַּד was born (Gen. 35:26); or the future⁷Hophal of יצע. instead of the past.—As to the masculine form יצע (the subject רמה being feminine) compare לקח מהם קללה And of them a curse shall be taken up. (Jer. 29:22); this is a poetical license; the same freedom in the use of the gender is to be noticed in the Arabian language. Concerning the following ומכסך, which is participle masculine,⁸I. E. seems to have read ומכסך, instead of ומכסיך. There is, however, no difference in the sense, since the latter can he both plural and singular. (Ges. Hebr. Gr. § 93, 9.)⁸I. E. seems to have read ומכסך, instead of ומכסיך. There is, however, no difference in the sense, since the latter can he both plural and singular. (Ges. Hebr. Gr. § 93, 9.) the same remark is to be made.