## Rashi on Jeremiah Chapter 18

###### Rashi on Jeremiah 18:3:1
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**עַל הָאָבְנִים.** ״עַל סַדְנָא״ (תרגום יונתן). פורמ״ש בְּלַעַ״ז:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**on the wheels** Jonathan renders: on the wheel. (Formes in French.)


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 18:4:1
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**אֲשֶׁר הוּא עוֹשֶׂה בַּחֹמֶר.** אֲשֶׁר הוּא עוֹשֶׂה מִן הַחֹמֶר **נִשְׁחַת בְּיַד הַיּוֹצֵר**, בְּעוֹדוֹ לַח; וּמִקְרָא מְסֹרָס הוּא:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**that he was making of clay** That he was making of the clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand while it was still wet, and this is an inverted verse.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 18:8:1
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**מֵרָעָתוֹ אֲשֶׁר דִּבַּרְתִּי עָלָיו.** מֵעֲבֵירוֹת שֶׁבְּיָדוֹ, אֲשֶׁר בִּשְׁבִילוֹ דִּבַּרְתִּי עָלָיו ״לִנְתוֹשׁ וְלִנְתוֹץ״ (ירמיה א:י), אִירְפוֹרְקִ״י בְּלַעַ״ז:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**of its evil for which I spoke concerning it** Of its sins for which I spoke concerning it. **to uproot and to demolish** (depayser [?] in French).


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 18:8:2
[Rashi on Jeremiah 18:8:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Jeremiah/r/18:8:2)

**וְנִחַמְתִּי.** וְחָשַׁבְתִּי מַחֲשָׁבָה אַחֶרֶת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**I will repent** And I will think another thought.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 18:12:1
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**וְאָמְרוּ נוֹאָשׁ.** וְיָדַעְתִּי שֶׁהֵם יֹאמְרוּ לְךָ עַל דְּבָרֶיךָ, שֶׁאֵין חוֹשְׁשִׁין לָהֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**But they shall say, We despair** I know that they will say to you regarding your words that they do not heed them.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 18:13:1
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**שַׁעֲרֻרִת.** דְּבָר גְּנַאי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**disgraceful thing** Heb. שַעֲרֻרִת.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 18:14:1
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**הֲיַעֲזֹב מִצּוּר שָׂדַי שֶׁלֶג לְבָנוֹן.** הֲיַעֲזֹב אָדָם הַצָּרִיךְ לִשְׁתּוֹת מַיִם הַ**נּוֹזְלִים** מִצּוּר שֶׁבַּשָּׂדוֹת, הַבָּאִים מִשֶּׁלֶג הַלְּבָנוֹן שֶׁהוּא נָקִי?!

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Shall one abandon from rocks of the field the snow of Lebanon** Shall a man who needs to drink abandon water that flows from the rock in the fields that comes from the snow of the Lebanon, which is clean?


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 18:14:2
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**אִם יִנָּתְשׁוּ מַיִם זָרִים.** אוֹ אִם יַעַזְבוּ מַיִם חַיִּים נוֹבְעִים, שֶׁהֵם זָרִים עַד הֵנָּה מִכָּל אָדָם, וְהֵם **קָרִים. זָרִים** הֵם נוֹבְעִים, וְזֶה יוֹכִיחַ: ״אֲנִי קַרְתִּי וְשָׁתִיתִי מַיִם זָרִים״ (מלכים ב יט:כד). וּמְנַחֵם חִבְּרוֹ זָרִים עִם ״לֹא זֹרוּ וְלֹא חֻבָּשׁוּ״ (ישעיהו א:ו) – לְשׁוֹן מֵימֵי תְרוּפָה. וְנָתַן טַעַם לִדְבָרָיו וְאָמַר, כִּי אִם בִּקֵּשׁ לְדַבֵּר בִּלְשׁוֹן זֶרֶם, הָיָה מַכְפִּיל אֶת הַמֵּ״ם וְהָיָה מוֹסִיף יוֹ״ד מֵ״ם, וְהָיָה אוֹמֵר זְרוּמִים, לְרַבּוֹת הַמַּיִם וְלִהְיוֹתָם זְרָמִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Shall strange cold... water be abandoned?** Or shall flowing spring water, which was strange to all people until now, and it is cold, be abandoned? זָרִים means flowing, and this proves it (2 Kings 19:24): “I dug and drank strange water (זָרִים).” Menahem, however, classified with (Isaiah 1:6) “they have not been sprinkled (זֹרוּ), neither have they been bandaged,” an expression of curative water, and he gave a reason for his statement, and he said that if he wished to speak with an expression of זֶרֶם, a stream, he would double the ‘mem,’ and he would add ‘yud’ ‘mem,’ and he would say זְרוּמִים because of the plural number of מַיִם water, and because they are streams (זְרָמִים).


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 18:14:3
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**שָׂדַי.** כְּמוֹ שָׂדֶה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the field** like שָדֶה, a field


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 18:14:4
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**קָרִים.** פְּרִיוְודָ״שׁ בְּלַעַ״ז:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**cold** (froids in French).


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 18:14:5
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**נוֹזְלִים.** קוֹרַאנְ״ץ בְּלַעַ״ז. וְעוֹד יֵשׁ לְפָתְרוֹ: **אִם יִנָּתְשׁוּ** לִהְיוֹת **מַיִם זָרִים** נִמְאָסִים, הַמַּיִם שֶׁהֵם **קָרִים נוֹזְלִים**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**flowing** (courants in French). And we can also interpret it: “Shall it be abandoned to be strange rejected water, the water that is cold running water?”


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 18:14:6
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(זָרִים לְלָשׁוֹן רִאשׁוֹן הוּא לְשׁוֹן זֶרֶם; לְלָשׁוֹן שֵׁנִי הוּא לָשׁוֹן זָרוֹת, כְּלוֹמַר מַיִם מְאוּסִים):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Heb.** זרים According to the first interpretation, it is an expression of a stream [זֶרֶם]. According to the second interpretation, it is an expression of strangeness, i.e., rejected water.)


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 18:15:1
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**כִּי.** כֵּן עָשׂוּ **עַמִּי** אֲשֶׁר **שְׁכֵחֻנִי** וְ**לַשָּׁוְא יְקַטֵּרוּ**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**For** so have My people done, that they have forgotten Me and burnt incense to vanity.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 18:15:2
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**שְׁבִילֵי עוֹלָם.** שְׁבִילִים הַמְתֻקָּנִים אָמְרוּ שֶׁהֵם מִכְשׁוֹל, כְּדֵי **לָלֶכֶת דֶּרֶךְ לֹא סְלוּלָה** לֹא כְבוּשָׁה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**ancient paths** The proper paths they said that they are a stumbling block, in order to go...**[on] a way that is not trodden down** Heb. סְלוּלָה.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 18:16:1
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**שְׁרִיקוֹת.** הָעוֹבֵר עַל חֳרָבוֹת שֶׁרָאָה כְּבָר בְּבִנְיָנָם, טוֹבִים, רָגִיל לִשְׁרֹק:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**hissing** One who passes by ruins that he already saw with good buildings is accustomed to whistle.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 18:16:2
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**יִשּׁוֹם.** יִתְמַהּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**will be astonished** will wonder.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 18:17:1
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**עֹרֶף וְלֹא פָנִים.** כְּשֶׁיִּבְרְחוּ מִפְּנֵי הָאוֹיֵב:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**upon their back and not their face** when they flee from before the enemy.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 18:17:2
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**אֶרְאֵם.** וְלֹא אוֹשִׁיעֵם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**I will look** but I will not save them.


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

**וַיֹּאמְרוּ לְכוּ וְגוֹ׳.** יִרְמְיָה הָיָה קוֹבֵל עַל אַנְשֵׁי עֲנָתוֹת וְאוֹמֵר שֶׁאוֹמְרִים כֵּן:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And they said, “Come, etc.”** Jeremiah was complaining about the men of Anathoth and saying that they say this.


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

**תּוֹרָה מִכֹּהֵן.** שֶׁעַל הַכֹּהֲנִים לְהוֹרוֹת תּוֹרָה, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר ״יוֹרוּ מִשְׁפָּטֶיךָ לְיַעֲקֹב״ (דברים לג:י):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Torah...from the priest** For it is incumbent upon the priests to teach the Torah, as it is stated (Deut. 33:10): “They shall teach Your ordinances to Jacob.”


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 18:18:3
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**וְדָבָר מִנָּבִיא.** דִּבְרֵי נְבוּאָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**not speech from the prophet** I. e., words of prophecy.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 18:18:4
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**וְנַכֵּהוּ בַלָּשׁוֹן.** ״וּנְסַהֲדִינֵיהּ סַהֲדוּתָא דְּשִׁקְרָא״ (תרגום יונתן):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Come, let us strike him with the tongue** Let us testify falsely against him.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 18:21:1
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**וְהַגִּרֵם.** (הוֹרִידֵם **עַל יְדֵי חֶרֶב**) לְשׁוֹן ״עֵינִי נִגְּרָה״ (איכה ג:מט), ״כַּמַּיִם הַמּוּגָרִים״ (מיכה א:ד):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and spill their blood** (Bring them down by the sword,) an expression of (Lam. 3:49) “My eye runs (נִגְרָה)”; (Micah 1:4) “Like water that runs (מֻגָרִים).”


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 18:21:2
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**עַל יְדֵי חֶרֶב.** עַל יְדֵי גְּיָסוֹת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**by the sword** by troops.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 18:21:3
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**וְאַנְשֵׁיהֶם.** שֶׁל הָאַלְמָנוֹת, **יִהְיוּ הֲרֻגֵי** מַלְאַךְ הַ**מָּוֶת**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and their husbands** i.e., the husbands of the widows shall be slain by the angel of death.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 18:22:1
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**כִּי כָרוּ שׁוּחָה.** שֶׁחֲשָׁדוּהוּ מֵאֵשֶׁת אִישׁ, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר ״כִּי שׁוּחָה עֲמֻקָּה זוֹנָה״ (משלי כג:כז):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**for they dug a pit to seize me** that they suspected him of intimacy with a married woman, as it is stated (Prov. 23:27): “For a harlot is a deep pit (ֹשוּחָה).”


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 18:23:1
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**אַל תִּמְחִי.** אַל תְּהִי מְחוּיָה. וּלְפִי שֶׁהוּא לְשׁוֹן נְקֵבָה נָתַן בּוֹ יוֹ״ד, וְאַף הִיא יְתֵרָה, כְּיוֹ״ד שֶׁל ״וַתִּזְנִי בָם״ (יחזקאל טז:יז):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**let not be erased** let it not be erased. And because it is a feminine gender, he placed a ‘yud’ therein. This too is superfluous, as the ‘yud’ of (Ezekiel 16:17) “And you played the harlot (וַתִּזְנִי) with them.”