예레미야애가 2:8의 미드라쉬
חָשַׁ֨ב יְהוָ֤ה ׀ לְהַשְׁחִית֙ חוֹמַ֣ת בַּת־צִיּ֔וֹן נָ֣טָה קָ֔ו לֹא־הֵשִׁ֥יב יָד֖וֹ מִבַּלֵּ֑עַ וַיַּֽאֲבֶל־חֵ֥ל וְחוֹמָ֖ה יַחְדָּ֥ו אֻמְלָֽלוּ׃ (ס)
여호와께서 처녀 시온의 성을 헐기로 결심하시고 줄을 띠고 훼파함에서 손을 거두지 아니하사 성과 곽으로 통곡하게 하셨으매 저희가 함께 쇠하였도다
Eikhah Rabbah
“The Lord resolved to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He drew a line, did not withdraw His hand from demolishing. He caused the rampart and wall to mourn, together they languish” (Lamentations 2:8).
“The Lord resolved to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion.” Rabbi Yoḥanan said: It was not from the proclamation.102God had decided to destroy Jerusalem long before the destruction was announced by the prophets (Matnot Kehuna). That is what is written: “For this city [has been a cause of My wrath and of My anger from the day that they built it until this day, to remove it from My presence]” (Jeremiah 32:31). Rabbi Eilam said: Like a person who is passing in a disgusting place and wrinkles his nose.103The Hebrew word for “My anger” [api] can also be translated “my nose” (Matnot Kehuna).
“He drew a line.” There is a line for good and there is a line for bad. For good, “And a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem” (Zechariah 1:16). A line for bad, this one: “He drew a line.”
“Did not withdraw His hand from demolishing. He caused the rampart and wall to mourn, together they languish,” like that which Rabbi Huna son of Rabbi Aḥa said: A wall and a secondary wall.
“The Lord resolved to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion.” Rabbi Yoḥanan said: It was not from the proclamation.102God had decided to destroy Jerusalem long before the destruction was announced by the prophets (Matnot Kehuna). That is what is written: “For this city [has been a cause of My wrath and of My anger from the day that they built it until this day, to remove it from My presence]” (Jeremiah 32:31). Rabbi Eilam said: Like a person who is passing in a disgusting place and wrinkles his nose.103The Hebrew word for “My anger” [api] can also be translated “my nose” (Matnot Kehuna).
“He drew a line.” There is a line for good and there is a line for bad. For good, “And a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem” (Zechariah 1:16). A line for bad, this one: “He drew a line.”
“Did not withdraw His hand from demolishing. He caused the rampart and wall to mourn, together they languish,” like that which Rabbi Huna son of Rabbi Aḥa said: A wall and a secondary wall.
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