## Rashi on Jeremiah Chapter 8

###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:2:1
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**וּשְׁטָחוּם לַשֶּׁמֶשׁ.** וְהַכַּשְׂדִּים יִשְׁכְּנוּ לָצוּר עַל הָעִיר בְּקִבְרֵי הַשָּׂרִים, שֶׁהָיוּ נָאִים כְּפַלָּטִין (סנהדרין צו:):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And spread them before the sun** And the Chaldeans shall dwell when they besiege the city, in the graves of the princes, that were as beautiful as palaces.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:2:2
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**לְדֹמֶן.** לְזֶבֶל:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**for dung** For fertilizer.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:3:1
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**וְנִבְחַר מָוֶת מֵחַיִּים.** אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁהֵם רוֹאִים אֶת הַמֵּתִים נְתוּנִין בְּבִזָּיוֹן, צָרַת הַחַיִּים גְּדוֹלָה הֵימֶנָּה, וְיִבְחֲרוּ אֶת הַמָּוֶת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And death shall be preferable to life** Although they see the dead being subjected to disgrace, the distress of the living is worse than that, and they will choose death.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:4:1
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**הֲיִפְּלוּ וְלֹא יָקוּמוּ.** הֲטוֹב לָהֶם שֶׁיַּפִּילוּ אֶת עַצְמָם לִנְפִילָה שֶׁאֵין לָהֶם תְּקוּמָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Shall they fall and not rise** Is it good for them to cast themselves into a fall from which there is no rising?


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:4:2
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**אִם יָשׁוּב וְלֹא יָשׁוּב.** לִכְשֶׁיִּרְצוּ לָשׁוּב מֵרָעָתָם, לֹא יָשׁוּב הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא מִגְּזֵרָתוֹ (ספר במדבר מב). דָּבָר אַחֵר: אַף אִם יָשׁוּבוּ בִּתְשׁוּבָה, לֹא תִתְקַיֵּם בְּיָדָם, כִּי יְמַהֲרוּ לָשׁוּב לְרִשְׁעָתָם (ספר במדבר מב); וְכֵן תִּרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן: ״אִם לְמֵיתַב, גְּלֵי קֳדָמַי דְּלָא יְתוּבוּן״:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**if he repents, will He not return?** If they wish to repent of their wickedness, will the Holy One, blessed be He, not return from His decree? Another explanation: If they repent, the repentance will not be permanent, for they will quickly return to their wickedness, and in this manner Jonathan rendered it: If to repent, it is revealed before Me that they will not repent.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:5:1
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**מְשׁוּבָה נִצַּחַת.** מְשׁוּבַת עוֹלָם; כְּמוֹ ״נֶצַח״ (ירמיה טו:יח):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**a perpetual backsliding** Heb. משבה נצחת, a perpetual backsliding, like נצח, perpetual.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:5:2
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**הֶחֱזִיקוּ.** אָחֲזוּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**They have held** Heb. החזיקו.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:5:3
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**בַּתַּרְמִית.** בְּמִרְמָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**to deceit** Heb. בתרמית.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:6:1
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**לֹא כֵן.** לֹא בַּדִּין, כְּמוֹ ״כֵּן בְּנוֹת צְלָפְחָד״ (במדבר כז:ז):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**not...properly** Heb. לא כן, not right, cf. (Num. 27:7) “The daughters of Zelaphehad speak justly (כּן).


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:6:2
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**כֻּלֹּה שָׁב בִּמְרֻצוֹתָם.** בַּדֶּרֶךְ הָרִאשׁוֹן חוֹטְאִים, וְחוֹזְרִים וְחוֹטְאִים. **מְרוּצָתָם** – קוֹרְשִׁ״י בְּלַעַ״ז:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Each one turns away in his course** [lit. in their course.] In the first way. They sin and repeatedly sin. מרוצתם is korse in O.F.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:6:3
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**שׁוֹטֵף.** אֵישְׁפְּרִידִי״ן בְּלַעַ״ז:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**like a frightening** effaye in French.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:7:1
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**חֲסִידָה.** צִיגוֹנִיאָ״ה בְּלַעַ״ז:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Even the stork** (Cigogne in French).


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:7:2
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**מוֹעֲדֶיהָ.** עֵת עָבְרָם אֶל אִיֵּי הַיָּם מִפְּנֵי הַצִּנָּה, וְעֵת שׁוּבָם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**her seasons** The time they pass to the islands of the sea because of the cold, and the time of their return.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:7:3
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**שָׁמְרוּ.** הִמְתִּינוּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**await** Heb. שמרו.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:7:4
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**וְתוֹר וְסִיס וְעָגוּר.** ״וְשַׁפְנִינָא וְכוּרְכְיָא וּסְנוּנִיתָא״ (תרגום יונתן). כּוּרְכְיָא – גְּרוּאָ״ה בְּלַעַ״ז, סְנוּנִית – אֲרוּנְדִּילָ״א בְּלַעַ״ז:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and the turtledove and the crane and the swallow** Jonathan renders: ושפנינא וכורכיא וּסנוּניתא. כּורכיא is (grue in French), a crane. סנוּניתא is (hirondelle in French), a swallow.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:8:1
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**אָכֵן הִנֵּה לַשֶּׁקֶר.** הִנֵּה חָכְמַתְכֶם לַשֶּׁקֶר בָּכֶם, לְרַפְּאוֹתְכֶם **עַל נְקַלָּה**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Verily, behold it is in vain** Behold your wisdom is in vain within you to heal you lightly.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:8:2
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**עָשָׂה עֵט שֶׁקֶר סוֹפְרִים.** נְבִיאֲכֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**he made a false scribes’ pen** i.e., your prophet.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:9:1
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**הוֹבִישׁוּ חֲכָמִים.** כְּמוֹתְכֶם. וּמַהוּ הַבֹּשֶׁת? – **הִנֵּה בִדְבַר ה׳ מָאֲסוּ וְחָכְמַת מֶה לָהֶם**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Wise men were ashamed** i.e., wise men like you. And what is the shame? Behold, they rejected the word of the Lord, now what wisdom have they?


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:11:1
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**וַיְרַפּוּ.** כְּמוֹ ״וַיְרַפְּאוּ״ (ירמיה ו:יד):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And they healed** Heb. וירפו, similar to וירפאו.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:12:1
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**הוֹבִישׁוּ.** בֹּשֶׁת וּכְלִימָּה תָּבֹא לָהֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**They shall be put to shame** Shame and embarrassment shall come upon them.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:12:2
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**גַּם בּוֹשׁ לֹא יֵבוֹשׁוּ.** אֵינָם מִתְבַּיְּשִׁים בְּמַעֲשֵׂיהֶם הָרָעִים, לָתֵת לֵב לָשׁוּב:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Neither are they ashamed** They are not ashamed of their evil deeds to take heart to repent.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:13:1
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**אָסֹף אֲסִיפֵם.** לְשׁוֹן כְּלָיָה, כְּמוֹ ״אָסֹף אָסֵף כֹּל מֵעַל פְּנֵי הָאֲדָמָה״ (צפניה א:ב):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**I will utterly consume them** This is an expression of destruction. Comp. (Zeph. 1:2) “I will utterly consume (אסף אסף) everything from upon the face of the earth.”


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:13:2
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**אֵין עֲנָבִים בַּגֶּפֶן.** לֹא יִוָּתֵר דָּבָר:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**There shall be no grapes on the vine** Nothing will be left over.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:13:3
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**וְהֶעָלֶה נָבֵל.** לְשׁוֹן כָּמוֹשׁ, פְּלֵיישְׁטִי״שׁ בְּלַעַ״ז; כְּמוֹ ״וּכְנֹבֶלֶת מִתְּאֵנָה״ (ישעיהו לד:ד), ״כָּאֵלָה נוֹבֶלֶת עָלֶיהָ״ (ישעיהו א:ל):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**even the leaves will be withered** Heb. נבל, an expression of withering (fleirit in French). Comp. (Isa. 34:4) “and as a withered fig (וּכנבלת) from a fig tree.” Also (ibid. 1:30), “like an elm whose leaves are wilting (נבלת).”


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:13:4
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**וָאֶתֵּן לָהֶם יַעַבְרוּם.** כָּל זֹאת תִּהְיֶה לָהֶם עַל כִּי נָתַתִּי לָהֶם חֻקִּים וְעָבְרוּ עֲלֵיהֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**for what I gave them they transgressed** All this shall befall them because I gave them statutes and they transgressed them.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:14:1
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**וְנִדְּמָה שָׁם.** וְנִדּוֹם שָׁם, נֵשֵׁב שָׁם דּוֹמִים וַאֲבֵלִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and there let us sit in silence** And let us be silent there. Let us sit there silent and mournful.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:14:2
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**מֵי רֹאשׁ.** ״כָּס דִּלְוָוט בִּישׁ כְּרֵישֵׁי חִיוָן״ (תרגום יונתן); ״רֹאשׁ פְּתָנִים״ (דברים לב:לג) הוּא אֶרֶס שֶׁבְּשִׁנָּיו:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**poisoned water** Jonathan renders: the cup of the curse, like the venom of serpents. The venom of the serpents is the poison that is in his teeth.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:16:1
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**מִדָּן נִשְׁמַע.** ״עַל דְּפַלְחוּ לְעֶגְלָא דִּבְדָן״ (תרגום יונתן; סנהדרין צו.):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**From Dan is heard** Because they worshipped the calf that was in Dan.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:16:2
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**נַחְרַת סוּסָיו.** עֲטִישׁוֹת נְחִירָיו:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the snorting of their horses** The sneezing of his nostrils.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:16:3
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**מִצְהֲלוֹת אַבִּירָיו.** צַהֲלַת מִשְׂחַק סוּסָיו; וּמָצִינוּ בְּמָקוֹם אַחֵר סוּסִים נִקְרָאִים אַבִּירִים: ״מִדַּהֲרוֹת דַּהֲרוֹת אַבִּירָיו״ (שופטים ה:כב), לְשׁוֹן ״סוּס דּוֹהֵר״ (נחום ג:ב). וְיוֹנָתָן תִּרְגֵּם: ״מִקָּל פְּסִיעוֹת גַּבְרוֹהִי״:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the neighing of their stallions** The neighing of joy of his horses, and we find elsewhere that horses are called אבּירים (Jud. 5:22) by reason of the prancings, “the prancings of their mighty ones (אבּיריו),” an expression of (Nahum 3:2) “a prancing horse.” And Jonathan renders: from the sound of the steps of their mighty ones.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:17:1
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**נְחָשִׁים צִפְעֹנִים.** לְסוֹף שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה נַעֲשֶׂה צֶפַע, וְאוֹטֵם אָזְנוֹ שֶׁלֹּא יִשְׁמַע לְקוֹל חֶבֶר הַמְלַחֲשׁוֹ, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר ״כְּמוֹ פֶתֶן חֵרֵשׁ יַאְטֵם אָזְנוֹ...״ (תהלים נח:ה-ו); הוּא שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר: **אֲשֶׁר אֵין לָהֶם לָחַשׁ** (ראה שוחר טוב נח:ב):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**serpents, adders** After seventy years, the snake becomes a צפע, which shuts its ear so that it will not hear the voice of the charmer who charms him, as it is stated (Psalms 58:5), “Like a deaf asp that shuts up its ear.” That is the meaning of “that cannot be charmed.”


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:18:1
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**מַבְלִיגִיתִי עֲלֵי יָגוֹן.** כְּמוֹ הִבְלַגְתִּי, וְשֵׁם דָּבָר הוּא מישאיטינמנ״ץ בְּלַעַ״ז, כְּלוֹמַר אִם אָמַרְתִּי אַבְלִיגָה וְאֶתְאַפֵּק עֲלֵי יָגוֹנִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Were I to suppress my grief** Heb. מבליגיתי, my suppression, and it is a noun, (mes estenimenc in O.F.). That is to say, if I said, I will suppress and keep in my grief.


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

**עָלַי לִבִּי דַוָּי.** מִקּוֹל נְבוּאוֹת הַנִּגְלוֹת אֵלַי בְּפֻרְעָנִיּוֹת הַבָּאוֹת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**my heart is sick within me** From the voice of the prophecies that are revealed to me of the coming retributions.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:19:1
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**הִנֵּה קוֹל שַׁוְעַת בַּת עַמִּי.** אֲנִי שׁוֹמֵעַ שֶׁסּוֹפָן לִצְעֹק בְּ**אֶרֶץ מַרְחַקִּים**. וְלָמָּה כָּל זֹאת? הֲלֹא **ה׳ בְּצִיּוֹן**, וְאִם יָשׁוּבוּ אֵלָיו יִמָּצֵא לָהֶם!

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Hark the voice...the cry of the daughter of My people** I hear that eventually they will cry from a distant land, but why is all this necessary? Is not the Lord in Zion? If they return to Him, He will allow Himself to be found by them.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:20:1
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**עָבַר קָצִיר כָּלָה קָיִץ.** צִפִּינוּ לְעֶזְרַת מִצְרַיִם וְלֹא בָאָה; אָמַרְנוּ: יַעֲבֹר הַקָּצִיר וְיִהְיוּ פְנוּיִין וְיָבֹאוּ, וְהִנֵּה עָבַר זְמַן הַקָּצִיר בְּאִיָּר, וּזְמַן הַקָּיִץ בְּתַמּוּז, וְלֹא בָאוּ (בבא מציעא קו:):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**The harvest is past, the summer is ended** We looked forward to the aid of Egypt, but it did not come. We said, “Let the harvest pass, and they will be free, and they will come.” Now behold, the time of harvest has passed in Iyar, and the summer season in Tammuz, and they have not come.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:21:1
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**קָדַרְתִּי.** לְשׁוֹן שַׁחֲרוּת וְאֹפֶל:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**I mourn** lit. I am darkened, an expression of blackness and darkness.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:21:2
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**שַׁמָּה.** תִּמָּהוֹן:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**dismay** Heb. שמה, wonder.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:21:3
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**הֶחֱזִיקַתְנִי.** אֲחָזַתְנִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**has taken hold of me** Has held me.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:22:1
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**הַצֳּרִי אֵין בְּגִלְעָד.** שֶׁהַצֳּרִי בָּא מִשָּׁם, כְּמוֹ שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר ״עֲלִי גִלְעָד וּקְחִי צֳרִי״ (ירמיה מו:יא); כְּלוֹמַר: וְכִי לֹא הָיוּ לָהֶם אֲנָשִׁים צַדִּיקִים מִמִּי לִלְמֹד, וְיֵיטִיבוּ דַרְכֵיהֶם?

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Is there no balm in Gilead** For balm comes from there, as it is said (infra 46:11) “Go up to Gilead and take balm.” That is to say, Did they not have any righteous men from whom to learn so that they should improve their ways?


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 8:22:2
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**אֲרֻכַת.** רְפוּאַת אִינְפְּלַשְׁטְרָ״א בְּלַעַ״ז:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the health of** lit. the cure of, (emplatre in O.F.), plaster, dressing.