In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore, moles and bats.
Ibn Ezra
עשו They made. The subject is not named; it is the indefinite one or they; comp. ויאמר ליוסף and he (= some one) said to Joseph (Gen. 48:1). עשוהו one has done it (Eccles. 2:12). חפר פרות. I think the singular is חפרפרת, and signifies a bird that flies out in the night like the bat, and keeps itself hidden during the day ; others say that חפרפרת means a bird which eats up the fruits during the night; in this case it consists of two separate words.
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
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