Psalm 40:2
Douay-Rheims
Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the poor: the Lord will deliver him in the evil day.
Rashi
the poor Heb. דל, the ill, to visit him, as the matter that is stated (in II Sam. 13:4): “Why are you so poor (דל)...?” mentioned in reference to Amnon. on a day of calamity This is Gehinnom (Ned. 40a). And in this world, what is his [the visitor’s] reward?...
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
Source details
1105 · Psalms 41:2 (Hebrew numbering)
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