## Rashi on Psalms Chapter 6

###### Rashi on Psalms 6:1:1
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**עַל הַשְּׁמִינִית.** כִּנּוֹר שֶׁל שְׁמוֹנָה נִימִין, וְשְׁמִינִית שְׁמוֹ. וְכֵן מָצִינוּ (דברי הימים א טו:כא) פְּלוֹנִי וּבָנָיו ״עַל הַשְּׁמִינִית לְנַצֵּחַ״:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**on the sheminith** A harp of eight strings, known as sheminith, and so we find (in I Chron. 15: 21): “So-and-so and his sons on the sheminith to conduct.”


###### Rashi on Psalms 6:3:1
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**אֻמְלָל.** נִשְׁחַת וְדַל כֹּחַ (קונפונדו״ץ בלע״ז), כְּמוֹ ״הַיְּהוּדִים הָאֲמֵלָלִים״ דְּעֶזְרָא (נחמיה ג:לד):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**languish** אמלל, devastated, and poor in strength, konfondouc in Old French, confounded, perplexed as “these feeble Jews (האמללים),” of Ezra (Neh. 3:34).


###### Rashi on Psalms 6:4:1
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**וְאַתָּה ה׳ עַד מָתָי.** תַּבִּיט וְאֵינְךָ רוֹפֵא?

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and You, O Lord, how long** will You look on and not heal [me]?


###### Rashi on Psalms 6:5:1
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**שׁוּבָה ה׳.** מֵחֲרוֹנְךָ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Return, O Lord** from Your anger.


###### Rashi on Psalms 6:5:2
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**חַלְּצָה נַפְשִׁי.** מֵחוֹלְיִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**rescue my soul** from my illness.


###### Rashi on Psalms 6:7:1
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**אַשְׂחֶה בְכָל לַיְלָה מִטָּתִי.** לְשׁוֹן ״סְחִי וּמָאוֹס״ (איכה ג:מה), ״וְהָיְתָה נִבְלָתָם כַּסּוּחָה״ (ישעיהו ה:כה) – מְמָאֵס אֲנִי מִטָּתִי בִּדְמָעוֹת. וּמְנַחֵם חִבְּרוֹ עִם ״כַּאֲשֶׁר יְפָרֵשׂ הַשֹּׂחֶה לִשְׂחוֹת״ (ישעיהו כה:יא), וְעִם ״מֵי שָׂחוּ״ (יחזקאל מז:ה):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**every night I sully my bed** Heb. אשׂחה an expression of (Lam. 3:45): “scum (סחי) and refuse”; (Isa. 5:25), “and their corpses were like spittle (כסוחה).” I sully my bed with tears. Menachem (p. 172), however, associated it with (Isa. 25:11): “as the swimmer (השׂחה) spreads out [his hands] to swim (לשׂחות),” and with (Ezek. 47:5), “water to swim in (שׂחו).”


###### Rashi on Psalms 6:7:2
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**בְּדִמְעָתִי עַרְשִׂי אַמְסֶה.** אֲלַחְלֵחַ וְאַרְטִיב כְּמוֹ מַיִם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**I wet my couch with my tears** I moisten and wet as with water.


###### Rashi on Psalms 6:8:1
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**עָשְׁשָׁה.** לְשׁוֹן עֲשָׁשִׁית, עַיִן שֶׁמְּאוֹרָהּ כֵּהָה, וְדוֹמֶה לוֹ כְּאִלּוּ הוּא רוֹאֶה דֶּרֶךְ זְכוּכִית שֶׁכְּנֶגֶד עֵינָיו. וּמְנַחֵם פֵּרְשׁוֹ לְשׁוֹן רִקָּבוֹן, כְּמוֹ (תהלים לא:יא) ״וַעֲצָמַי עָשֵׁשׁוּ״, וְכֵן כָּל לְשׁוֹן עָשׁ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**is dimmed** Heb. עשׁשׁה, an expression of a lantern (עשׁשׁית), an eye which has impaired vision and seems to see through glass [held] before its eyes. Menachem (p. 139) defines it as an expression of decay, and so every expression of עשׁ, like (below 31:1 1) “and my bones are wasted away (עשׁשׁו).”


###### Rashi on Psalms 6:8:2
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**עָתְקָה.** נִתְיַשְּׁנָה וְנִזְדַּקְּנָה עֵינִי בִּכְהִיַּת אוֹר, וּמְנַחֵם חִבְּרוֹ עִם ״וַיַּעְתֵּק מִשָּׁם הָהָרָה״ (בראשית יב:ח):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**it has aged** Heb. עתקה. My eye has aged and become old in that its light has dimmed. Menachem (p. 139) associated it with (Gen. 12:8): “And he moved (ויעתק) from there to the mountain.”


###### Rashi on Psalms 6:8:3
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**בְּכָל צוֹרְרָי.** בִּשְׁבִיל צָרוֹת שֶׁמְּצִירִין לִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**because of all my adversaries** Because of the troubles that distress me.


###### Rashi on Psalms 6:11:1
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**יֵבֹשׁוּ וְיִבָּהֲלוּ וְגוֹ׳.** מַהוּ **יָשׁוּבוּ יֵבֹשׁוּ** פַּעַם שְׁנִיָּה? אָמַר רַבִּי יוֹחָנָן : לֶעָתִיד לָבוֹא הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא דָּן אֶת הָרְשָׁעִים וּמְחַיְּבָן לַגֵּיהִנֹּם, וְהֵם מִתְרַעֲמִין עָלָיו, וְהַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא מַחֲזִירָן וְחוֹזֵר וּמַרְאֶה גִּלְיוֹנִין שֶׁלָּהֶם וְדָן אוֹתָם וּמִתְחַיְּבִין, וְהוּא מַחֲזִירָן לַגֵּיהִנֹּם. הֲרֵי בּוּשָׁה כְּפוּלָה. רַבִּי שְׁמוּאֵל בַּר נַחְמָנִי אוֹמֵר : לֶעָתִיד לָבֹא כָּל אֻמָּה קוֹרְאָה לֵאלֹהֶיהָ וְאֵין עוֹנֶה, וְחוֹזְרִין וְקוֹרְאִין לְהַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא, וְאוֹמֵר לָהֶם: אִלּוּ אֵלַי קְרָאתֶם תְּחִלָּה, הָיִיתִי עוֹנֶה אֶתְכֶם. עַכְשָׁו עֲשִׂיתֶם עֲבוֹדַת גִּלּוּלִים עִקָּר וְאוֹתִי טְפֵלָה, לְפִיכָךְ אֵינִי עוֹנֶה, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר ״יִשְׁוְעוּ וְאֵין מוֹשִׁיעַ״ (תהלים יח:מב) – זוֹ עֲבוֹדַת גִּלּוּלִים, וְאַחַר כָּךְ ״אֶל ה׳ וְלֹא עָנָם״ (שם). לְכָךְ נֶאֱמַר: **יָשֻׁבוּ יֵבֹשׁוּ**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**shall be ashamed and very frightened, etc.** What is the meaning of “they shall return and be ashamed” a second time? Said Rabbi Johanan: In the future the Holy One, blessed be He, will judge the wicked of the nations of the world and sentence them to Gehinnom. Because they will complain to Him, He will take them back and again show them their records, and He returns them to Gehinnom. This is a double embarrassment. Rabbi Shmuel bar Nachmani says: In the future, every nation will call to its god, but it will not answer. Consequently, they will call to the Holy One, blessed be He. He will say to them, “Had you called Me first, I would have answered you. Now you have made the idols of primary importance and Me of secondary import. Therefore, I will not answer,” for it is stated (below 18:42): “They pray, but no one saves them.” This refers to the idols, and afterward, “to the Lord, but He answered them not.” Therefore, it is said: “they shall return and be ashamed.”


###### Rashi on Psalms 6:11:2
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**רָגַע.** בִּמְעַט זְמַן:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**in a moment** In a short time.