Komentaryong Sumisipi para sa Isaias 32:2

ושממה And desolate. Supply ארצכם ‘ your country ’—and your country is desolate.²²It is not quite clear what Ibn Ezra means by this remark; perhaps that the expressive closing sentence, ושממה כמהפכת זרים And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers, is to be taken in a more comprehensive sense, and referred to the general term ארצכם your country, which includes עריכם your cities, and אדמתכם your land. זרים can be derived from זרם ‘ tempest ’ (32:2); the final מ would then be not a sign of the plural, but one of the radical letters; if so, if this derivation be correct, the two words זרים of this verse are two different grammatical forms.²³This is the opinion of Saadiah, attacked by R. Adonim, because of זָרים being different from the singular זָרֶם and the plural זְרָמִים, but defended by Ibn Ezra in his Sephath Yether (No. 22); this is one of the many instances of two nouns, different in form but identical in meaning, being formed from the same root; זֶרֶם ═ זָרִים ‘ tempest.’

ויבא עמלק, at the sound of the people’s being frustrated with thirst. This is what Moses meant when he recalled the incident 40 years later in Deuteronomy 25,18 describing the Israelites’ state of mind at the time as ואתה עיף ויגע, “you were tired and worn out.” We find the expression עיף linked to water also in Job 22,7 לא מים עייף תשקה, “You do not give the thirsty water to drink.” (Eliphaz accusing Job) We also find the word applied to earth itself in Isaiah 32,2 בארץ עיפה, “in a languishing land.”