## Rashi on Psalms Chapter 120

###### Rashi on Psalms 120:1:1
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**שִׁיר הַמַּעֲלוֹת.** שֶׁיֹּאמְרוּ הַלְוִיִּם אוֹתוֹ עַל חֲמֵשׁ עֶשְׂרֵה מַעֲלוֹת הַיּוֹרְדוֹת מֵעֶזְרַת יִשְׂרָאֵל עַד עֶזְרַת נָשִׁים, וְיֵשׁ כָּאן חֲמִשָּׁה עָשָׂר מִזְמוֹרִים שֶׁל שִׁיר הַמַּעֲלוֹת (סוכה ה:ד). וְרַבּוֹתֵינוּ אָמְרוּ שֶׁיִּסְּדָן דָּוִד לְהַעֲלוֹת אֶת הַתְּהוֹם, כְּמוֹ שֶׁמְּפֹרָשׁ בְּמַסֶּכֶת סֻכָּה (סוכה נג.). וּלְפִי אַגָּדָה פִּתְרוֹנוֹ שִׁיר לְמֵאָה עוֹלוֹת (ירושלמי סנהדרין י:ב):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**A song of ascents** which the Levites will recite on the fifteen steps that go down from the Israelites’ court to the Women’s court, and there are fifteen psalms entitled “A song of ascents” (Suc. 5:4, Mid 2:5). And our Rabbis said that David composed them to raise the deep, as is explained in Tractate Succah (53a). And according to the Aggadah (Yerushalmi Sanh. 10:2, 52b), it is to be interpreted: A song for a hundred steps (שיר למאה עולות).


###### Rashi on Psalms 120:2:1
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**מִשְּׂפַת שֶׁקֶר.** זַרְעוֹ שֶׁל הָרָשָׁע, שֶׁצָּדִין אֶת הַבְּרִיּוֹת בְּפִיהֶם בַּעֲלִילוֹת רֶשַׁע:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**from false lips** The arm of those who hunt people with their mouth with wicked accusations.


###### Rashi on Psalms 120:3:1
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**מַה יִּתֵּן לְךָ.** הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**What can He give you** [What can] the Holy One, blessed be He [give you]?


###### Rashi on Psalms 120:3:2
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**וּמַה יּוֹסִיף לְךָ.** שְׁמִירָה וּמְחִיצּוֹת, הֲרֵי אַתְּ נְתוּנָה לִפְנִים מִשְּׁתֵּי מְחִיצּוֹת (ערכין טו:):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and what can He add to you** [What] safeguard and walls? Behold you are placed within two walls.


###### Rashi on Psalms 120:4:1
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**חִצֵּי גִבּוֹר שְׁנוּנִים.** וַהֲרֵי אַתְּ הוֹרֶגֶת בְּמָקוֹם רָחוֹק כְּחֵץ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Sharpened arrows of a mighty man** Behold you kill in a distant place like an arrow.


###### Rashi on Psalms 120:4:2
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**עִם גַּחֲלֵי רְתָמִים.** כָּל הַגֶּחָלִים, כָּבוּ מִבַּחוּץ – כָּבוּ מִבִּפְנִים, וְאֵלּוּ כָּבוּ מִבַּחוּץ וְלֹא מִבִּפְנִים (בראשית רבה צח:יט). דָּבָר אַחֵר (ערכין טו:): **מַה יִּתֵּן לְךָ.** מַה סוֹפוֹ שֶׁל הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא לִגְזֹר עָלֶיךָ? **חִצֵּי** גִבּוֹרִים **עִם גַּחֲלֵי רְתָמִים.** חִצִּים מִלְמַעְלָה וְגֵיהִנֹּם מִלְּמַטָּה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**with coals of brooms** All coals, when extinguished on the outside, are extinguished on the inside, but these extinguish themselves on the outside but not on the inside (ibid.). Another explanation: What will He give you? What is the Holy One, blessed be He, destined to decree upon you? Arrows of a mighty man with coals of brooms. His arrows from above and Gehinnom from below.


###### Rashi on Psalms 120:5:1
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**אוֹיָה לִי.** אָמְרָה כְּנֶסֶת יִשְׂרָאֵל כִּי כְּבָר לָקִיתִי בְּגָלֻיּוֹת רַבִּים, הֲרֵי **גַּרְתִּי מֶשֶׁךְ** עִם בְּנֵי יֶפֶת (בראשית י:ב) בְּמַלְכוּת פָּרַס וְיָוָן וּמֶשֶׁךְ (יומא י.):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Woe is to me** says the congregation of Israel, for I have already suffered in many exiles. Behold I sojourned in Meshech with the sons of Japheth in the kingdom of Persia, Greece, and Meshech.


###### Rashi on Psalms 120:7:1
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**אֲנִי שָׁלוֹם.** עִמָּהֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**I am at peace** With them.


###### Rashi on Psalms 120:7:2
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**וְכִי אֲדַבֵּר.** עֲלֵיהֶם שָׁלוֹם, הֵמָּה בָּאִים לְהִלָּחֵם בִּי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**but when I speak** peacefully with them, they come to wage war with me.