Rashi on the Prophets and Writings

A song with musical accompaniment of the Levites. for the Sabbath day that they would recite on Sabbaths, and it deals with the world to come, which is entirely Sabbath.

To declare in the morning Your kindness At the time of the Redemption. and Your faith at night And during the distress of the exile, to believe in You that You will keep Your promise, all this is splendid and good.

Upon a ten-stringed harp and upon a psaltery Heb. עשור, a harp of ten strings.

A boorish man does not know What is stated below.

When the wicked flourish like grass they do not know that their flourishing is only to destroy them to eternity, for He recompenses His enemies to their face to destroy them.

But You remain on high In all Your judgments, You have the upper hand, for all justify Your judgments.

to soak me with fresh oil Heb. בלתי. To soak me with the oil of dominion. בַלֹתִי is like (Num. 15: 9): “mingled (בלולה) with oil.”

upon those who stare at me Heb. בשורי, at those who stare at me, as (5:9): “those who lie in wait for me (בשוררי).” when evildoers rise up against me About the wicked who rise up against me, my ears heard from behind the “veil” that they will not succeed in destroying us [perhaps, David and his men]. So I heard.

The righteous one flourishes like the palm, etc. Like the palm that produces fruit, and like the cedar insofar as its trunk renews itself.

Planted The righteous will be [planted] in the house of the Lord.

will...grow Heb. ישגה, will grow. fat Heb. דשנים, They will be fat and fresh, and then they will declare that the Lord is upright.