Therefore saith the Lord the God of hosts, the mighty one of Israel: Ah! I will comfort myself over my adversaries: and I will be revenged of my enemies.
Ibn Ezra
נאום The word of. A noun (comp. Jer. 23:31). To use נֻם instead of נאום is a blunder, נעל ים). for א cannot be omitted. The Lord. This is added because the judges appear as the lords of the earth. The Lord of hosts. He is truly the Lord, and the hosts of the universe are His witnesses. Why the name of God is joined, in the construct state, to צבאות, though being a proper noun, is explained in the Book of Samuel. The mighty One of Israel, and The Lord of hosts compose a parallelism, in which Israel on earth beneath corresponds to the hosts of heaven above, for the Israelites are likewise called the hosts of God (comp. Exod. 12:41). אוי = חוי Woe. Woe unto them when I shall do the following thing. I will ease me of mine adversaries. I will find comfort for their having provoked me. An anthropomorphism.
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.