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Jewish 1105 · Rashi on the Prophets and Writings, Psalms 12:9 (Hebrew numbering)

Rashi, on Ps 11:9

Rashi · 1040–1105
Ps 11:9 · Douay-Rheims
“The wicked walk round about: according to thy highness, thou best multiplied the children of men.”
On this verse:
“Wicked men walk on all sides to hide traps to cause me to stumble. when the basest to the sons of men is elevated Heb. כרם זלות לבני אדם [They walk on all sides] because of their envy, for they are jealous of my greatness, that I was taken from behind the sheep to be a king. This is the interpretation of כרם זלות לבני אדם: when a man considered by the sons of men to be base is elevated. This is on the order of the passage elsewhere (below 118:22): “The stone that the builders rejected became a cornerstone.” The Midrash Aggadah interprets it concerning Israel in the future, when they will be elevated. [Unknown Midrashic source] Menachem interprets כרם זלות לבני אדם (pp. 78, 164): like a gluttonous wild ox to devour the sons of men. Accordingly, כרם is rendered: like a רים or ראם, and זלות is like (Deut. 21:20) זולל וסבא, “a glutton and a drunkard.” The following is its interpretation: The wicked walk on all sides around the poor man; the wicked walk to swallow him for naught, as a wild ox to swallow the sons of men.”

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