Rashi, on Lam 3:53

“Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me.”

“They have confined my life in the dungeon Heb. בַּבּוֹר, in prison. They have confined Heb. צָמְתוּ, they bound, like the junction (צֹמֶת) of the sinews (Hul. 76a); (Song 4:1): “from within your kerchief (לְצַמָתֵךְ),” estreyture in Old French, restriction, tightening. and have cast a stone upon me on the mouth of the dungeon. That is what they did to Daniel, and Jeremiah foresaw it with the holy spirit. They have confined my life in the dungeon And although they confined my life in the dungeon so that I cannot ascend from within it, they did not pay attention to this until they cast a stone upon me.”

Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.