Thus saith the Lord your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their bars, and the Chaldeans glorying in their ships.
Ibn Ezra
שלחתי I was sent. Some think that the first person I refers to the prophet; but I am of opinion that God is speaking, because this verse begins, Thus saith the Lord, and the next verse, I am the Lord, The meaning of the phrase is: I have come so hastily, as if I were sent. A very learned man in Spain conjectures, that the Divine Glory, the same heavenly prince of Israel that has been sent to Babylon to redeem Israel, is speaking to the prophet. והורדתי בריחים And have brought down the bars of Babylon, that is, I caused Babylon to be conquered; comp. He hath destroyed and broken her bars (Lam, 2:9). The bars of the gates of the place are meant. וכשדים באניות רנתם And I shall bring down the Chaldæans from their ships of joy, in which they are.
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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