Rashi on the Prophets and Writings

show Heb. הופיע, show and reveal to us Your vengeance.

boast Heb. יתאמרו. They praise themselves, as (Deut. 26:17f.): “you praised (האמרת),” and “praised you (האמירך).”

Understand, [you] most boorish of the people the most foolish peoples in the world.

Will He Who implants the ear Is it possible that the Holy One, blessed be He, Who implanted the ear, should not hear the cry of His people and their affliction?

will He...not reprove and chastise you for that?

The Lord knows your thoughts, that you are thinking to be haughty with the crown of the kingdom, and you should know that they [your thoughts] are vanity.

Fortunate is the man Fortunate are the righteous who are afflicted under Your hands, provided that they engage in Torah and mitzvoth.

To grant him peace from days of evil For the chastisements cause him to have peace from the days of the judgment of Gehinnom. while he sees that a pit is dug for the wicked man.

For until righteousness will judgment return [i.e., the judgment of] their chastisements [will persist] until they become righteous because of them. And after the judgment, all those upright in heart will gather, for they will receive their reward.

Who will rise up for me Whose merit will stand up for us among these evildoers?

Will the throne of evil join You Will it be able to compare to You? for a statute for the sake of a statue, to be for them as the statute of their worship.

They gather Troops gather upon a Jewish soul to kill [him]. and condemn Heb. ירשיעו. They condemn in judgment to kill him.

their violence Heb. אונם, their violence, as (Job 21:19): “Should God lay away his violence (אונו) for his sons?”