## Rashi on Ezekiel Chapter 26

###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:1:1
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:1:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:1:1)

**בְּעַשְׁתֵּי עֶשְׂרֵה.** לְצִדְקִיָּהוּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**in the eleventh [year]** of Zedekiah.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:2:1
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:2:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:2:1)

**עַל יְרוּשָׁלִַם.** שֶׁהָיְתָה בְּמָצוֹר:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Jerusalem** which was under siege.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:2:2
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:2:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:2:2)

**הֶאָח.** לְשׁוֹן קוֹל שִׂמְחָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Aha!** [Heb. הֶאָח,] an expression of a shout of joy.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:2:3
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:2:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:2:3)

**נִשְׁבְּרָה דַּלְתוֹת הָעַמִּים.** עִיר שֶׁכָּל הָעוֹבְדֵי כּוֹכָבִים הָיוּ נִכְנָסִים לָהּ לִסְחוֹרָה, מֵעַתָּה תִּשָּׁבֵר, כִּי לֹא יֵלֵךְ הַמָּצוֹר מֵעָלֶיהָ עַד תִּלָּכֵד:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**The doors of the peoples have been broken** A city through which all the nations enter for commerce will now be broken, for the siege will not leave it until it is taken.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:2:4
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:2:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:2:4)

**נָסֵבָּה אֵלָי.** מֵעַתָּה הוּסְבָּה סְחוֹרַת הָעַמִּים אֵלָי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**it has turned to me** From now on, the merchandise of the nations has turned on me.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:2:5
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:2:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:2:5)

**אִמָּלְאָה הָחֳרָבָה.** אֶתְמַלֵּא אֲנִי מִן הָעִיר יְרוּשָׁלַיִם הַחֲרֵבָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**I shall become full from the destroyed [city]** I shall become full from the destroyed city of Jerusalem.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:4:1
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:4:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:4:1)

**וְסִחֵיתִי.** וְעָקַרְתִּי, כְּמוֹ ״בֵּית גֵּאִים יִסַּח ה׳״ (משלי טו:כה); ״וְנִסַּחְתֶּם מֵעַל״ (דברים כח:סג):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and I shall remove** [Heb. וְסִחֵיתִי,] and I shall uproot, like (Prov. 15:25): “The Lord will uproot (יִסַח) the house of the haughty;” (Deut. 28:63); “and you will be uprooted (וְנִסַחְתֶם) from...”


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:4:2
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:4:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:4:2)

**לְצְחִיחַ סָלַע.** לְפִי שֶׁהָיְתָה בְּנוּיָה בְּסֶלַע בְּתוֹךְ הַיָּם, כְּשֶׁתִּנָּתֵץ וְיִסַּח **עֲפָרָהּ** אֶל הַיָּם נִשְׁאָר הַסֶּלַע חָלָק; וְכֵן תִּרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן: ״לִשְׁעִיעוּת כֵּיף גַּלִּי״:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**a smooth rock** Since it was built on a rock in the midst of the sea, when it will be demolished and its earth will be uprooted into the sea, the rock will be left bare, and so did Jonathan render: a smooth, bare rock.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:5:1
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:5:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:5:1)

**מִשְׁטַח חֲרָמִים.** עַל הַסֶּלַע יִשְׁטְחוּ הַדַּיָּגִים אֶת חֶרְמֵי מִכְמְרוֹתָם, לְנַגְּבָם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**a place to spread out nets** On the rock the fishermen will spread out their fishing nets, to dry them.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:6:1
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:6:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:6:1)

**וּבְנוֹתֶיהָ אֲשֶׁר בַּשָּׂדֶה.** הַכְּפָרִים הַמְשֻׁעְבָּדוֹת לָהּ סְבִיבוֹתֶיהָ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And her daughters that are in the field** the villages that are subservient to her, surrounding her.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:8:1
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:8:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:8:1)

**וְהֵקִים עָלַיִךְ צִנָּה.** ״וִיקִים עָלַיִךְ דִּי מְזַיְּנִין בְּתַרְסִין״ (תרגום יונתן):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and will station against you shields** [Heb. צִנָה,] and will station against you those armed with shields.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:9:1
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:9:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:9:1)

**וּמְחִי קָבָלוֹ.** הוּא אֶחָד מִתַּחְבּוּלוֹת הַמָּצוֹר, לִזְרוֹק אֲבָנִים גְּדוֹלוֹת, וּמַכֶּה כְּנֶגְדּוֹ אילקולי״אה דשאפורי״ירא בְּלַעַ״ז; וְיֵשׁ לוֹעֲזִים קָבָלוֹ דשארבלי״טא בְּלַעַ״ז; וְיֵשׁ לוֹעֲזִין פורייר״א בְּלַעַ״ז:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And...his catapult** [Heb. וּמְחִי קָבָלוֹ.] This is one of the devices of the siege, to throw huge rocks and to strike opposite it, e la hone de sa pereyre in Old French, and the striking of his stone-throwing machine. Others render קָבָלוֹ as desarbalete in Old French, of his war-machines.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:9:2
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:9:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:9:2)

**בְּחַרְבוֹתָיו.** בְּאוּמָנוּת חוּרְבָּן שֶׁיָּבִיא עִמּוֹ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**with his instruments of destruction** [Heb. בְּחַרְבּוֹתָיו,] with tools of destruction that he will bring with him.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:10:1
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:10:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:10:1)

**מִשִּׁפְעַת סוּסָיו.** כְּשֶׁיֵּשׁ סוּסִים הַרְבֵּה מַעֲלִים אָבָק בְּרַגְלֵיהֶם, וְעוֹלֶה וְנַעֲשֶׂה כְּעָנָן וּמַחְשִׁיךְ הָאָרֶץ, הוּא קָרוּי ׳שִׁפְעַת׳; וְכֵן ״וְשִׁפְעַת מַיִם תְּכַסֶּךָּ״ (איוב כב:יא) ׳דְלָאפוֹיְשׁוֹן׳ בְּלַעַ״ז:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**From the abundance of his horses** When there are many horses, they raise dust with their feet, which ascends and becomes like a cloud, darkening the earth. This is called שִּׁפְּעַת, an abundance. Similarly, (Job 22:11): “or an abundance of (וְשִּׁפְּעַת) water covers you,” de la foison in French, of abundance.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:10:2
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:10:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:10:2)

**כִּמְבוֹאֵי עִיר מְבֻקָּעָה.** ״כְּמָה דְעָלִין לְקַרְתָּא דְמִתְרְעָא מִשּׁוּר״ (תרגום יונתן), שֶׁנִּפְרְצָה חוֹמָתָהּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**as men enter a breached city** as they enter a city that has been breached of its wall(Targum), that its wall has been breached.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:12:1
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:12:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:12:1)

**רְכֻלָּתֵךְ.** סְחוֹרָתֵךְ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**your merchandise** [as translated], your merchandise.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:16:1
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:16:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:16:1)

**וְחָרְדוּ לִרְגָעִים.** לִשְׁבָרִים, פֶּן יָבֹא עֲלֵיהֶם גַּם הֵם כְּשִׁבְרֵךְ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and they will tremble for [fear of] destruction** [Heb. לִרְגָעִים,] for fear of destruction, lest it befall them like your destruction.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:16:2
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:16:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:16:2)

**לִרְגָעִים.** לְשׁוֹן שֶׁבֶר, כְּמוֹ ״רוֹגַע הַיָּם״ (ישעיה נא:טו); ״עוֹרִי רָגַע״ (איוב ז:ה); ״עַל רִגְעֵי אָרֶץ״ (תהלים לה:כ) – עַל דַּכָּאֵי אֶרֶץ. וּמְנַחֵם פֵּרְשׁוֹ לְשׁוֹן רֶגַע, כְּמוֹ ״כִּי רֶגַע בְּאַפּוֹ״ (תהלים ל:ו):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
לִרְגָעִים as is an expression of breaking, like (Isa. 51:15): “Who splits (ַרוֹגַע) the sea;” (Job 7:5), “my skin split (רָגַע);” (Ps. 35:20), “and against the crushed people of (רִגְעֵי) the earth,” [synonymous with] דִכְּאֵי “the crushed people of the earth.” Menachem, however, explained it (p. 162) in the sense of רֶגַע, a moment, as in (Ps. 30:6): “For His wrath lasts but a moment (רֶגַע).”


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:16:3
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:16:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:16:3)

**וְשָׁמְמוּ.** לְשׁוֹן תִּמָּהוֹן:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and will be appalled** [Heb. וְשָּׁמְמוּ,] an expression of bewilderment.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:17:1
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:17:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:17:1)

**נוֹשֶׁבֶת מִיַּמִּים.** יֵשׁ נוֹקְדִין רָפֵי, וּפוֹתְרִין: מְיוּשֶׁבֶת מִיָּמִים קַדְמוֹנִים; וְיֵשׁ נוֹקְדִים דָּגֵשׁ, וּפוֹתְרִין מְיוּשֶׁבֶת בְּחָזְקָה עַל יְדֵי **יַמִּים** הַסּוֹבְבִים לָהּ; וְכֵן תִּרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן, וְכֵן הוּא:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**established from the seas** [Heb. מִיָמִּים.] Some vocalize it without a “dagesh” (מִיָמִים) and interpret it to mean “settled from days of yore,” and others punctuate it with a “dagesh” (מִיַמִּים) and interpret it to mean “settled with strength through the seas surrounding her,” and so it is.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:17:2
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:17:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:17:2)

**אֲשֶׁר נָתְנוּ חִתִּיתָם.** סְבִיבוֹת **לְכָל** הַיּוֹשְׁבִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**who cast terror** around to all the inhabitants.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:17:3
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:17:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:17:3)

**חִתִּיתָם.** לוֹרְדְפְרֵיימְ״נְט בְּלַעַ״ז:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
Heb. חִתִּיתָם, lur defre[n]emant in Old French, their terror.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:18:1
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:18:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:18:1)

**הָאִין.** כְּמוֹ הָאִיִּים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the isles** [Heb. הָאִיִן,] like הָאִייִם.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:18:2
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:18:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:18:2)

**מִצֵּאתֵךְ.** מִיצִיאָתֵךְ בַּגּוֹלָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**by your departure** by your departure into exile.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:19:1
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:19:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:19:1)

**בְּהַעֲלוֹת עָלַיִךְ אֶת תְּהוֹם.** ״בְּאַסְקוּתִי עֲלָךְ מַשְׁרְיָת עַמְמִין דְּסַגִּיאִין כְּמֵי תְהוֹמָא, וִיחַפּוּנָךְ עַמְמִין סַגִּיאִין״, כֵּן תִּרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן; וּכְמַשְׁמָעוֹ: בִּתְחִלָּה נִתְּנָה בְּיַד נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּר, וְסוֹף עָלָה הַיָּם וְטָבְעָהּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**when [I] bring up the deep upon you** “When I bring upon you companies of nations as numerous as the waters of the deep, and many nations will cover you.” Jonathan translated it in this manner, but according to its apparent meaning, first it was given into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, and ultimately, the sea came up and inundated it.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:20:1
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:20:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:20:1)

**אֶת יוֹרְדֵי בוֹר.** עִם יוֹרְדֵי גֵּיהִנָּם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**with those who descend into the Pit** with those who descend into Gehinnom.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:20:2
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:20:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:20:2)

**אֶל עַם עוֹלָם.** עִם שְׁאָר הָעוֹבְדֵי כּוֹכָבִים וּמַזָּלוֹת אֲשֶׁר שָׁם מֵעוֹלָם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**to a people of old** with the other nations who are there from long ago.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:20:3
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:20:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:20:3)

**כָּחֳרָבוֹת מֵעוֹלָם.** כֶּעָרִים אֲשֶׁר חָרְבוּ מֵאָז, כִּסְדוֹם וְחַבְרוֹתֶיהָ (בראשית יט:כד-כה):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**like the ruins of old** like the cities that were destroyed from times of yore, viz. Sodom and her sister cities.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:20:4
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:20:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:20:4)

**וְנָתַתִּי צְבִי בְּאֶרֶץ חַיִּים.** וְאֶתֵּן הַתִּפְאֶרֶת בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**but I shall bestow beauty upon the land of the living** And I shall bestow beauty upon Jerusalem.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 26:21:1
[Rashi on Ezekiel 26:21:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/26:21:1)

**בַּלָּהוֹת.** פֵּרְשׁוֹ יוֹנָתָן **בַּלָּהוֹת** ״כְּדְלָא הֲוֵית״, וְהַפּוֹתְרִים אוֹמְרִים לְשׁוֹן מְקוֹם מְרַקֵּד שְׂעִירִים (ישעיה יג:כא) וּמַזִּיקִין:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**a nonentity** [Heb. בַּלָהוֹת.] Jonathan explained בַּלָהוֹת [as] as if you did not exist, and the exegetes explain it as a word for a place where the satyrs and demons dance.