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Ibn Ezra on Deuteronomy 32:35/אבן עזרא על דברים ל״ב:ל״ה

אלי נקם ושלם. שם כמו הלא את הקטר והטעם לי הנקם ולי השלם לשלם להם כמעשיהם:

1VENGEANCE IS MINE, AND RECOMPENSE. Shillem (recompense) is a noun.³²⁹. It is like the word kitter (offering)³³⁰ in The offering…did not (Jer. 44:21). It means³³¹. that Vengeance is mine, and mine is the recompense to compensate them in accordance with their deeds.

בלעת תמוט רגלם. והטעם שיפלו ולא יוכלו לעמוד:

2AGAINST THE TIME WHEN THEIR FOOT SHALL SLIP. It means³³². they will fall and be unable to stand.

גוטעם לעת. כמו וגם רשע ליום רעה והוא סוד גדול:

3The meaning of Against the time is similar to that of Yea, even the wicked for the day of evil (Prov. 16:4). It is a great secret.³³³

דכי קרוב. ואל יחשבו כי הנקמה תהיה בזרעם:

4FOR THE DAY OF THEIR CALAMITY IS AT HAND. Let them not think that the vengeance will be exacted from their children.³³⁴

הוחש עתידות למו. וחש כל אחד מהם מהעתידות כמו בנות צעדה או חש יום עתידות והראשון נכון ומלת חש מהשניים:

5AND THE THINGS THAT ARE TO COME UPON THEM SHALL MAKE HASTE. Ve-chash atidot lamo (and the things that are to come upon them shall make haste) means each one of the future events that are to come upon them shall make haste.³³⁵ is in the singular. atidot is a plural. Thus our clause reads, “The things that are to come upon them [it] makes haste.” According to I.E the singular in a combination of the singular and the plural refers to each thing included in the plural. It is like Its branches (banot)³³⁶ is a plural. run (tza’adah)³³⁷ is a singular. over the wall (Gen. 49:22).³³⁸ Or the meaning of ve-chash atidot lamo is, the day (yom)³³⁹ is a singular. when the future things that are to come upon them makes haste.³⁴⁰ (things about to come) is short for yom atidot (the day the things that are about to come). The first interpretation is correct. The word chash (make haste) comes from a root in which only two letters are present.³⁴¹.

ווטעם עתידות. הרעות העתידות לבא עליהם:

6The meaning of the things that are to come is, the evil things that are about to come.