Midrash su Isaia 14:3

Another interpretation (of Cant. 4:8): WITH ME FROM LEBANON (rt.: LBN).²⁴Since this root also designates a brick, Lebanon becomes an allusion to the bricks made in Egypt. See Exod. R. 23:5. R. Levi said: The Holy One said: I was with you during the Egyptian enslavement. R. Berekhyah the Priest said: R. Levi bar Susi expounded as follows: (Exod. 24:10:) AND THEY SAW THE GOD OF ISRAEL, after they had been redeemed <from the Egyptian enslavement, (ibid., cont.:) AND UNDER HIS FEET THERE WAS SOMETHING LIKE BRICKWORK (rt.: LBN) OF SAPPHIRE, before they were redeemed. In a place where a road of brickwork (rt.: LBN) was to be laid, it was laid.²⁵Cf. Lev. R. 23:8; Cant. R. 4:8:1. Since the Holy One shares Israel’s sufferings, during the Egyptian enslavement it was fitting for heaven to have something like brickwork to correspond with the mortar and bricks for which Israel was enslaved. The enslavement in Babylon was greater than the enslavement in Egypt. Of Egypt it is written (ibid.) AND UNDER HIS FEET THERE WAS SOMETHING LIKE BRICKWORK (rt.: LBN) OF SAPPHIRE; but of Babylon it is written (in Ezek. 1:26): IN APPEARANCE LIKE {THE} STONEWORK OF SAPPHIRE….²⁶Since stone is harder to work than brick, the Babylonian enslavement must have been more difficult. Of Egypt it is written (in Exod. 1:14): AND THEY MADE THEIR LIVES BITTER WITH HARD LABOR; but of Babylon it is written (in Is. 14:3): AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THE DAY THAT THE LORD GIVES <YOU> REST <FROM YOUR SORROW, FROM YOUR TROUBLE, > AND FROM YOUR HARD LABOR. The Holy One said to them: In Babylon I was with you, and in Egypt I was with you. Ergo (in Cant. 4:8): [COME] WITH ME FROM LEBANON, MY BRIDE, [WITH ME FROM LEBANON].²⁷The midrash is explaining that the twofold repetition of the words, WITH ME FROM LEBANON, is necessary because there were two enslavements. The first WITH ME FROM LEBANON depicts the Egyptian captivity, and the second concerns the Babylonian one.