## Rashi on Psalms Chapter 32

###### Rashi on Psalms 32:1:1
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**לְדָוִד מַשְׂכִּיל.** אָמְרוּ חֲכָמִים (פסחים קיז.): כָּל מִזְמוֹר שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר בּוֹ מַשְׂכִּיל, עַל יְדֵי מְתוּרְגְּמָן אֲמָרוֹ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Of David, a maskil** The Sages said (Pes. 117a): Every Psalm in which “maskil” is mentioned was said through an interpreter.


###### Rashi on Psalms 32:1:2
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**אַשְׁרֵי נְשׂוּי פֶּשַׁע.** שֶׁהַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא נוֹשֵׂא פֶּשַׁע וּמְכַסֶּה חֲטָאָיו:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Praiseworthy is he whose transgression is forgiven** Whose transgression the Holy One, Blessed Be He, forgives, and He conceals his sins.


###### Rashi on Psalms 32:1:3
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**נָשׂוּי.** אַנְפוֹרְדוֹנִי״ץ בְּלַעַ״ז:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
(נשוי is anpardone in Old French, pardoned. The implication is forgiveness, because the forgiveness of iniquity represents [the sin] being lifted up and withdrawn from upon a person.)


###### Rashi on Psalms 32:2:1
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**וְלֹא יַחְשֹׁב לוֹ עָוֹן.** וּבִלְבַד שֶׁלֹּא תִּהְיֶה בְּרוּחוֹ רְמִיָּה לִהְיוֹת בְּדַעְתּוֹ לָשׁוּב אֶל קִיאוֹ (משלי כו:יא):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**to whom the Lord ascribes no iniquity** provided that in his spirit there is no guile, thinking to revert to his “vomit.”


###### Rashi on Psalms 32:3:1
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**כִּי הֶחֱרַשְׁתִּי.** כַּאֲשֶׁר הֶחֱרַשְׁתִּי מִלְּהִתְוַדּוֹת עַל פְּשָׁעַי לְפָנֶיךָ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**When I was silent** When I was silent, [when I refrained] from confessing my transgressions before You.


###### Rashi on Psalms 32:3:2
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**בָּלוּ עֲצָמָי.** מֵרוֹב אַנְחוֹתַי וּדְאָגוֹתַי כָּל הַיּוֹם שֶׁהָיִיתִי דּוֹאֵג מִפְּנֵי הַפֻּרְעָנוּת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**my bones decayed** because of my many sighs and my worries all day, that I was worrying about the punishment.


###### Rashi on Psalms 32:4:1
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**כִּי יוֹמָם וָלַיְלָה.** הָיָה כָבֵד עָלַי מוֹרָא יָדְךָ וּגְזֵרוֹתֶיךָ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**For [both] day and night** the fear of Your hand and Your decrees was heavy upon me.


###### Rashi on Psalms 32:4:2
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**נֶהְפַּךְ לְשַׁדִּי.** לַחְלוּחַ שֶׁלִּי, וְכֵן ״לְשַׁד הַשֶּׁמֶן״ (במדבר יא:ח), לַחְלוּחַ שֶׁמֶן. כָּךְ פֵּרְשׁוֹ דוּנַשׁ, וּמְנַחֵם חִבֵּר לְשׁוֹן שְׁדִידָה כְּמוֹ ״מִשֹּׁד עֲנִיִּים״ (תהלים יב:ו), ״רְשָׁעִים זוּ שַׁדּוּנִי״ (תהלים יז:ט):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**my freshness was transformed** Heb. לשדי, my moisture, and so (in Num. 11:8): “the moisture (לשד) of oil,” the moisture of oil. This is how Dunash explained it (p. 14). Menachem (p. 171) associates [it with] an expression of plunder as (above 12:6): “from the plunder (משד) of the poor”; (above 17: 9) “Because of the wicked who have robbed me (שדוני).”


###### Rashi on Psalms 32:4:3
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**בְּחַרְבוֹנֵי קַיִץ.** עַד שֶׁיִּיבַשׁ בְּחֹרֶב הַקַּיִץ מִפְּנֵי דַּאֲגַת כֹּבֶד יָדְךָ, שֶׁהָיִיתִי דּוֹאֵג עַל חַטָּאתִי; וּלְפִיכָךְ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**as in the droughts of summer** Until it dries up as the drought of summer out of my worry of the heaviness of Your hand, that I was worrying about my sins; therefore...


###### Rashi on Psalms 32:5:1
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**חַטָּאתִי אוֹדִיעֲךָ.** תָּמִיד וּלְשׁוֹן הֹוֶה הוּא, כִּי אָמַרְתִּי: טוֹב שֶׁאוֹדֶה עֲלֵי פְשָׁעַי לַה׳. וְעַתָּה כְּשֶׁהוֹדֵיתִי וְאָמַרְתִּי לְנָתָן הַנָּבִיא ״חָטָאתִי״ (שמואל ב יב:יג), **נָשָׂאתָ עֲוֹן חַטָּאתִי**, כְּעִנְיָן שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (שם): ״גַּם ה׳ הֶעֱבִיר חַטָּאתְךָ וְגוֹ׳״:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**I would inform You of my sin** always. This is a present tense. For I said, It is good that I should confess my transgressions to the Lord, and now that I confessed and said to Nathan the prophet, “I have sinned,” (as in II Samuel 12:13)...**You forgave the iniquity of my sin** as the matter that is stated there (verse 13): “Also the Lord has removed your sin, etc.”


###### Rashi on Psalms 32:6:1
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**לְעֵת מְצוֹא.** בְּהִמָּצְאֲךָ לְקַבֵּל תְּפִלָּתוֹ, וּמַה הִיא זֹאת? **רַק לְשֵׁטֶף מַיִם רַבִּים** אֲשֶׁר **לֹא יַגִּיעוּ אֵלָיו** – שֶׁלֹּא יִפֹּל בְּיַד הָאֻמּוֹת, שֶׁהֵם כְּמַיִם שׁוֹטְפִים. וְכֵן מָצִינוּ שֶׁהִתְפַּלֵּל דָּוִד עַל זֹאת וְאָמַר: ״נִפְּלָה נָּא בְיַד ה׳ כִּי רַבִּים רַחֲמָיו וּבְיַד אָדָם אַל אֶפֹּלָה״ (שמואל ב כד:יד):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**at the time that You are found** When You are found to accept his prayer, and what is this?...**only about a flood of vast waters** that they should not reach him, that he should not fall into the hands of enemies, who are like flooding waters. And so we find that David prayed for this and said (II Sam. 24: 14): “Let us fall now into the hand of the Lord, for His mercies are great; but into the hand of man let me not fall.”


###### Rashi on Psalms 32:7:1
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**אַתָּה סֵתֶר לִי.** לְהִסָּתֵר בְּצִלְּךָ מִפְּנֵי פַּחַד אוֹיֵב:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**You are a shelter for me** to hide in Your shadow from before the enemy.


###### Rashi on Psalms 32:7:2
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**תִּצְּרֵנִי.** כְּמוֹ תִּשְׁמְרֵנִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**You guard me** Heb. תצרני, like תשמרני.


###### Rashi on Psalms 32:7:3
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**רָנֵּי פַלֵּט.** רִנָּה שֶׁל הַצָּלָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**songs of deliverance** A song of rescue.


###### Rashi on Psalms 32:7:4
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**תְּסוֹבְבֵנִי.** לְשׁוֹן הֹוֶה הוּא: סִבַּבְתַּנִי תָּמִיד רָנֵּי פַלֵּט. וְכָךְ אָמַרְתָּ לִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**You encompass me** Heb. תסובבני. This is the present tense. You always encompassed me with songs of deliverance. And so You said to me...


###### Rashi on Psalms 32:8:1
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**אַשְׂכִּילְךָ וְאוֹרְךָ.** דֶּרֶךְ לָלֶכֶת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**I will enlighten you and instruct you which way** to go.


###### Rashi on Psalms 32:8:2
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**אִיעֲצָה.** אֶרְמֹז לְךָ בְּעֵינִי רֶמֶז מַה תַּעֲשֶׂה, **אִיעֲצָה** לְשׁוֹן קְרִיצַת עַיִן כְּמוֹ ״עֹצֵם עֵינָיו לַחְשֹׁב תַּהְפֻּכוֹת״ (משלי טז:ל):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**I will wink** With My eye; I will hint to you what to do. איעצה is an expression of winking the eye, as (in Prov. 16:30): “He winks (עצה) his eyes to think perverse thoughts.”


###### Rashi on Psalms 32:9:1
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**אַל תִּהְיוּ כְּסוּס כְּפֶרֶד.** שֶׁאֵינוֹ מֵבִין בֵּין הָעוֹשֶׂה לוֹ טוֹבָה לְעוֹשֶׂה לוֹ רָעָה, כְּשֶׁאַתָּה מְמַתְּגָם בּוֹ בְּמֶתֶג הוּא בּוֹלֵם פִּיו וּמְכַסְכֵּס בְּרִסְנוֹ, וּכְשֶׁאַתָּה מְקָרְדוֹ וּמְקַרְצְפוֹ אַתָּה צָרִיךְ לִבְלֹם וְלִסְגֹּר פִּיו וּלְיַסְּרוֹ **בְּמֶתֶג וָרֶסֶן** כְּשֶׁאַתָּה מְעַדֵּהוּ עֲדִי וּמְיַפֵּהוּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Be not like a horse, like a mule** which does not discern between one who benefits him and one who does him harm, for when you insert a bit into his mouth, he closes his mouth and shakes his bridle, and when you curry him and brush him, you must close his mouth and chastise him with a bit and bridle while you adorn him and groom him.


###### Rashi on Psalms 32:9:2
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**בַּל קְרֹב אֵלֶיךָ.** שֶׁלֹּא יִקְרַב אֵלֶיךָ, לְהַזִּיקְךָ כְּשֶׁאַתָּה מְיַפֵּהוּ. **בְּמֶתֶג וָרֶסֶן עֶדְיוֹ לִבְלוֹם.** בִּשְׁעַת עֶדְיוֹ, שֶׁאַתָּה מְקַרְדּוֹ וּמְקַרְצְפוֹ, אַתָּה צָרִיךְ לְסוֹגְרוֹ בְּמֶתֶג וָרֶסֶן שֶׁלֹּא יִקְרַב אֵלֶיךָ. בְּלִימָה בִּלְשׁוֹן מִשְׁנָה לְשׁוֹן מַסְגֵּר: פִּיו בָּלוּם, רַגְלָיו מְבֻלָּמוֹת (בכורות מ:). וּמְנַחֵם חִבֵּר **לִבְלוֹם** וְכֵן ״עַל בְּלִימָה״ (איוב כו:ז) לְשׁוֹן תֹּכֶן (ס״א אינו):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**so that...he does not come near you** So that he should not come near you to hurt you while you groom him, with bit and bridle (when he is being groomed, to close his mouth. When he is being groomedwhile you curry him and brush himyou must close his mouth with a bit and bridle so that he does not come near you.) בלימה is an expression of closing in the language of the Mishnah: Its mouth is closed (בלום), its feet are closed (מבלמות), in Tractate Bechoroth (40b). (Menachem associated לבלום, and also בלימה [Job 26:7] as an expression of regulating [p. 45].)