以賽亞書 14:6 註釋：Rashi & Ibn Ezra

pursued without relenting Every nation was pursued by him without his relenting from pursuing and chasing each nation.

מכת Stroke. It is the construct state; supply יד of the hand, or with the hand; comp. השותים במזרקי יין They that drink wine out of basons [of silver or gold]³The accents favour this explanation; מַכַּת֭ as well as בְמִזְרְׅק֭י have a disjunctive accent. (Am. 6:6).

מורדף Persecuted. Participle Hophal. The meaning of the whole sentence is: Who ruled over him that was persecuted without intermission. The word מורדף might, however, be taken in the active sense persecuting. ⁴The text has פעול; but as a contrast to the first explanation is intended, which describes מרדף to be פעול passive, we must read in the second explanation פועל active. I. E. says that although the form is passive, the meaning of the word is active (פועל בטעם). The Hophal, as the passive of the Hiphil, admits this active sense: caused to persecute, and therefore also persecuting.