Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough ways plain.
Ibn Ezra
Every valley shall be exalted. Every valley that is now low, shall then be exalted. The word גֶּיא valley is not in the construct state as in 22:1, and Ez. 39:11. It is, however, possible that it is in the construct state and some genitive is to be supplied; comp. מִלֵּיל (21:11). העקוב The crooked. It is the opposite of מישור straight; comp. עקוב deceitful (Jer. 17:9). והרכסים And the rough places. Comp. מרכסי from the crookedness of (Ps. 39:21)
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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