ציטירנדיקער פּירוש אויף תהילים 106:13

סרו מהר, “they have quickly departed, etc.” This term 'quickly' was most appropriate seeing that the people had apparently forgotten the miracles they had seen at the revelation only forty days ago and had committed idolatry at a time when the Shechinah was still present amongst them on Mount Sinai. Solomon paraphrased this when he said (Song of Songs 1,12 as interpreted in Shabbat 88) ”while the king was still at the table (Sinai), my nard gave forth its (foul) smell.” The words used by the Torah here have also been paraphrased by David in Psalms 106,13: “but they soon forgot His deeds; they would not wait to learn His plan.” The word עצתו, “His plan,” in that psalm refers to the Torah which Moses would bring with him on the morrow. Cf. Isaiah 25 for a similar usage of the word עצה.

ויאמרו אל משה המבלי אין קברים, “They said to Moses: ‘are there not enough burial places in Egypt, etc.?’” Nachmanides explains that it is clear that after the Israelites had pleaded for help to G’d, they would not immediately hereafter insult Him by the aforementioned cynical question, and by adding: ”what did You do to us by taking us out of Egypt?” We therefore must understand the verses here as reflecting the manner in which different groups of Israelites reacted to the imminent threat of annihilation which they faced. One group of Israelites resorted to prayer, another resorted to ridiculing the chance of a miracle being performed for them. Seeing that they did not believe in miraculous salvation they made peace with their impending death, but not before accusing Moses of instead of having been their redeemer having become their angel of death. It is this division among the people at that point in time to which the psalmist refers in Psalms 106,7 וימרו על ים בים סוף, “they rebelled at the sea, at the Sea of Reeds.” This is also why once the people are described as העם, “the people,” and once they are described as בני ישראל. The latter were the elite, few in number, who turned to G’d for help, the former were the masses whose attitudes were still not much different from what they had been while they were slaves and cynicism was the only weapon at their command. The people who were desperately afraid were therefore the “העם,” whom Moses told in verse 13 to stop acting so scared. This עם were the ones who are described after the event in verse 31 as “being in awe of Hashem, seeing that previously they had only made sarcastic remarks. The elite, i.e. the בני ישראל, did not need this education. In the Mechilta the sages explain that as a first step the people had prayed to G’d that Pharaoh should have a change of heart and should desist from pursuing them. When they noted that their prayer had not helped, they became heretical in their attitude, making above-mentioned sarcastic comments to Moses, blaming him for their present predicament.