And now what have I here, saith the Lord: for my people is taken away gratis. They that rule over them treat them unjustly, saith the Lord, and my name is continually blasphemed all the day long.
Ibn Ezra
מה לי פה What have I here, any more. It is an anthropomorphism. It might also mean, what reason have I to be silent, that my people is taken away for nought by Babylon, Edom, and other nations. ומשליו And they that rule over them, that is, the princes of Israel, or His poets; comp. המשלים they that speak in proverbs (Num. 21:27). יהילילו Hoẇl. The ה, the characteristic of the Hiphil, is here not omitted, as is usually the case. מתנאץ=מנאץ Is blasphemed. The Dagesh in נ compensates for the omitted ת.
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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