## Rashi on Psalms Chapter 69

###### Rashi on Psalms 69:1:1
[Rashi on Psalms 69:1:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:1:1)

**עַל שׁוֹשַׁנִּים.** עַל יִשְׂרָאֵל שֶׁהֵם ״כְּשׁוֹשַׁנָּה בֵּין הַחוֹחִים״ (שיר השירים ב:ב), שֶׁהַחוֹחִים מְנַקְּבִין אוֹתָם, וְהִתְפַּלֵּל עֲלֵיהֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**on shoshannim** Concerning Israel, who are like a rose (שושנה) among the thorns, pricked by the thorns, and he prayed for them.


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:2:1
[Rashi on Psalms 69:2:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:2:1)

**כִּי בָאוּ מַיִם.** הָאֻמּוֹת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**for water has come up** the nations.


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:3:1
[Rashi on Psalms 69:3:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:3:1)

**בִּיוֵן מְצוּלָה.** בְּבוֹץ, טִיט שֶׁל מְצוּלָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**in muddy depths** In the mire, the mud of the deep.


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:3:2
[Rashi on Psalms 69:3:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:3:2)

**וְשִׁבֹּלֶת.** הוּא שֶׁטֶף חֹזֶק הַנָּהָר, פִּי״ל בְּלַעַ״ז:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and the current** That is the flood of the strength of the river, fil in Old French, current.


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:4:1
[Rashi on Psalms 69:4:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:4:1)

**נָחַר.** יָבֵשׁ, כְּמוֹ ״חָרָה מִנִּי חֹרֶב״ (איוב ל:ל):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**has become parched** Heb. נחר, dry, as (Job 30:30): “are burned (חרה) with heat.”


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:4:2
[Rashi on Psalms 69:4:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:4:2)

**כָּלוּ עֵינַי.** כָּל תּוֹחֶלֶת מְמֻשָּׁכָה קְרוּיָה כִּלְיוֹן עֵינַיִם, כְּמוֹ ״וְכָלוֹת אֲלֵיהֶם כָּל הַיּוֹם״ (דברים כח:לב), ״מְכַלּוֹת עֵינַיִם״ (ויקרא כו:טז), ״וְעֵינֵי רְשָׁעִים תִּכְלֶינָה״ (איוב יא:כ):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**my eyes fail** Any drawn-out hope is called “failure of the eyes,” as (Deut. 28:32): “and pine after them all day”. [Similarly] (Lev. 26:16): “that cause the eyes to pine away”; (Job 11:20), “and the eyes of the wicked will pine away.”


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:5:1
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**אוֹיְבֵי שֶׁקֶר.** שׂוֹנְאִים אוֹתִי עַל שֶׁקֶר, שֶׁאֵין אֲנִי רוֹדֵף אַחַר שֶׁקֶר שֶׁלָּהֶם לִתְפֹּשׂ טָעוּתָם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**who are my enemies because of lies** They hate me because of a lie, because I do not pursue their lies to adopt their error.


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:5:2
[Rashi on Psalms 69:5:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:5:2)

**אָז אָשִׁיב.** כְּשֶׁהֵם נֶאֱסָפִים עָלַי, אֲנִי מְשַׁחֵד אוֹתָם בְּמָמוֹן מַה שֶּׁ**לֹּא גָזַלְתִּי** מֵהֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**I will then return** When they gather against me, I bribe them with money that I did not steal from them.


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:7:1
[Rashi on Psalms 69:7:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:7:1)

**אַל יֵבֹשׁוּ בִי קֹוֶיךָ.** אַל תַּנִּיחֵנִי בְּיָדָם, פֶּן יֵבֹשׁוּ קֹוֶיךָ בְּמַה שֶּׁמְּאֹרָע בִּי וְיֹאמְרוּ: הֲלֹא כָּךְ אֵרַע לְמִי שֶׁהָיָה מְקַוֶּה לְהַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא!

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Do not let those who hope for You be shamed** Do not leave me in their hands lest those who hope for You be shamed by what happens to me and say, “Didn’t that happen to one who hopes to the Holy One, blessed be He?”


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:9:1
[Rashi on Psalms 69:9:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:9:1)

**לְאֶחָי.** לְעֵשָׂו (בראשית כה:כה):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**to my brothers** To Esau.


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:10:1
[Rashi on Psalms 69:10:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:10:1)

**קִנְאַת בֵּיתְךָ.** רָאוּ הַחִבָּה שֶׁנָּהַגְתָּ בָּנוּ בְּעוֹד בֵּיתְךָ קַיָּם, וְנִתְקַנְּאוּ בִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the envy of Your house** They saw the love that You showed us when Your house was still existing, and they envied me.


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:11:1
[Rashi on Psalms 69:11:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:11:1)

**וָאֶבְכֶּה בַצּוֹם נַפְשִׁי.** בְּתַעֲנִיתִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And I bewailed my soul in fast** In my fast.


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:11:2
[Rashi on Psalms 69:11:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:11:2)

**וַתְּהִי לַחֲרָפוֹת לִי.** מַה שֶּׁאֲנִי בּוֹכֶה וּמִתְעַנֶּה לְפָנֶיךָ, הֵם מִתְלוֹצְצִים עָלַי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and it was a disgrace for me** When I weep and fast before You, they mock me.


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:13:1
[Rashi on Psalms 69:13:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:13:1)

**וּנְגִינוֹת.** בִּי לְ**שׁוֹתֵי שֵׁכָר** (ס״א אינו):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and melodies** they made of me for those who imbibe strong drink.


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:14:1
[Rashi on Psalms 69:14:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:14:1)

**וַאֲנִי תְפִלָּתִי לְךָ ה׳.** יְהִי עֵת תְּפִלָּתִי **עֵת רָצוֹן**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**But, as for me, may my prayer to You, O Lord, be** may the time of my prayer be a desirable time.


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:16:1
[Rashi on Psalms 69:16:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:16:1)

**וְאַל תֶּאֱטַר.** וְאַל תִּסְגֹּר עָלַי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and let not...close** And let it not close over me.


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:16:2
[Rashi on Psalms 69:16:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:16:2)

**בְּאֵר.** צָרָה נָכְרִיָּה זוֹ, אֶת **פִּיהָ** לִבְלָעֵנִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**a well** This strange trouble [shall not close] its mouth to swallow me up.


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:16:3
[Rashi on Psalms 69:16:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:16:3)

**תֵּאָטֵר.** כְּמוֹ ״אִטֵּר יַד יְמִינוֹ״ (שופטים ג:טו) – סָגוּר יַד יְמִינוֹ, שֶׁאֵינוֹ מִשְׁתַּמֵּשׁ בָּהּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**close** Heb. תאטר, as (Jud. 3:15): “with a shriveled (אטר) right hand” that he does not use it.


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:19:1
[Rashi on Psalms 69:19:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:19:1)

**קָרְבָה אֶל נַפְשִׁי.** (קְרַב אֵלַי):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Come close to my soul** (Come close to me.)


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:19:2
[Rashi on Psalms 69:19:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:19:2)

**גָּאֳלָהּ.** גְּאוֹל אוֹתָהּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**redeem it** Heb. גאלה, [equivalent to] גְאוֹל אוֹתָה.


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:21:1
[Rashi on Psalms 69:21:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:21:1)

**וָאָנוּשָׁה.** וָאֵאָנַשׁ וָאֶחֱלֶה, כְּמוֹ ״כִּי אֲנוּשָׁה מַכּוֹתֶיהָ״ (מיכה א:ט), וּכְמוֹ ״וַיֵּאָנַשׁ הַיֶּלֶד״ דְּבַת שֶׁבַע (שמואל ב יב:טו). וְאִם תֹּאמַר: הֵיאַךְ הָאָלֶ״ף זוֹ מְשַׁמֶּשֶׁת שֹׁרֶשׁ וּמְשַׁמֶּשֶׁת שִׁמּוּשׁ הַמֵּסֵב הַדִּבּוּר אֶל הַמְדַבֵּר? כֵּן דֶּרֶךְ תֵּבָה שֶׁתְּחִלָּתָהּ אָלֶ״ף, כְּגוֹן: ״וָאֹהַב אֶת יַעֲקֹב״ (מלאכי א:ב), ״אֲנִי אֹהֲבַי אֵהָב״ (משלי ח:יז) – הֲרֵי הוּא כְּמוֹ ׳וָאֶאֱהַב׳, וְכֵן ״אָסֹף אָסֵף״ (צפניה א:ב) – כְּמוֹ ׳אֶאֱסֹף׳:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and I have become ill** Heb. ואנושה, I am ailing and sick, as (Micah 1:9): “For she is mortally ill (אנושה) [from] her wounds,” and as (II Sam. 12:15): “and the child (sic) became mortally ill (ויאנש),” of Bathsheba. Now if you ask how this “aleph” serves as a radical and also as a prefix denoting the first person, this is the way of a word beginning with “aleph.” For example, (Mal. 1:2): “and I loved (וָאֹהַב) Jacob”; (Prov. 8:17), “I will love (אֵהָב) those who love me.” It is equivalent to וָאֶאֶהַב Similarly, (Zeph. 1:2): “I will totally destroy (אָסֹף אָסֵף),” like אֶאֶסֹף.


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:21:2
[Rashi on Psalms 69:21:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:21:2)

**לָנוּד.** שֶׁיָּבוֹאוּ לִי אוֹהֲבִים לָנוּד לִי וּלְנַחֲמֵנִי (איוב ב:יא):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**for sympathy** Heb. לנוד, to shake. That friends should come to me to shake [their heads] over me and to comfort me.


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:22:1
[Rashi on Psalms 69:22:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:22:1)

**בְּבָרוּתִי.** בִּסְעוּדָתִי, כְּמוֹ ״תָּבֹא נָא תָמָר אֲחוֹתִי... וְאֶבְרֶה מִיָּדָהּ״ (שמואל ב יג:ו):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**into my food** Heb. בברותי, into my food, as (II Sam. 13:6): “Let my sister Tamar come now, etc., that I may eat (ואברה) from her hand.”


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:22:2
[Rashi on Psalms 69:22:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:22:2)

**רֹאשׁ.** מָרָה:


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:23:1
[Rashi on Psalms 69:23:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:23:1)

**וְלִשְׁלוֹמִים.** כְּשֶׁיְּקַוּוּ לְשָׁלוֹם, יֵהָפֵךְ שְׁלוֹמָם לְמוֹקֵשׁ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and for peace** When they hope for peace, may their peace be turned into a snare.


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:27:1
[Rashi on Psalms 69:27:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:27:1)

**כִּי.** אֶת הָעָם הַזֶּה **אֲשֶׁר אַתָּה הִכִּיתָ**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**For** this nation, which You smote.


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:27:2
[Rashi on Psalms 69:27:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:27:2)

**רָדָפוּ.** אַתָּה קָצַפְתָּ מְעַט וְהֵם עָזְרוּ לְרָעָה (זכריה א:טו):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**they pursued** For You were a little angry, and they helped cause harm.


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:27:3
[Rashi on Psalms 69:27:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:27:3)

**וְאֶל מַכְאוֹב חֲלָלֶיךָ יְסַפֵּרוּ.** דִּבְרֵיהֶם לָבוֹא בְּעֵצָה: נַשְׁחִיתֵם ״בִּהְיוֹתָם כֹּאֲבִים״ (בראשית לד:כה):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and about the pain of those whom You wounded they tell** their words, to plot: “Let us destroy them while they are in pain.”


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:32:1
[Rashi on Psalms 69:32:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:32:1)

**וְתִיטַב.** הִלּוּלִי לַה׳:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And it will appeal to the Lord** My praise to the Lord.


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:32:2
[Rashi on Psalms 69:32:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:32:2)

**מִשּׁוֹר פָּר.** הוּא שׁוֹר שֶׁהִקְרִיב אָדָם הָרִאשׁוֹן, שֶׁנִּבְרָא בְּקוֹמָתוֹ; וּבַיּוֹם שֶׁנִּקְרָא שׁוֹר, בּוֹ בַיּוֹם הֱבִיאוֹ. שֶׁהַשּׁוֹר בֶּן יוֹמוֹ קָרוּי שׁוֹר, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר: ״שׁוֹר אוֹ כֶשֶׂב אוֹ עֵז כִּי יִוָּלֵד״ (ויקרא כ״ב:כ״ז). בּוֹ בַיּוֹם נִדְמָה לְפַר, שֶׁהוּא בֶּן שָׁלֹשׁ (ראש השנה י.):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**more than a young bull that is mature** That is the bull sacrificed by Adam, which was created at its height. On the day it was called שּׁוֹר, on that very day, he brought it, for a bull on day of its birth is called שּׁוֹר, as it is said (Lev. 22:27): “A bull (שור), a lamb, or a goat, that is born.” On that very day, it resembled a פַּר, which is a three-year old.


###### Rashi on Psalms 69:32:3
[Rashi on Psalms 69:32:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/69:32:3)

**מַקְרִן מַפְרִיס.** קַרְנוֹתָיו קָדְמוּ לְפַרְסוֹתָיו, שֶׁהֲרֵי בְּקוֹמָתוֹ וּבְקַרְנָיו נִבְרָא, וְרֹאשׁוֹ יָצָא מִן הָאָרֶץ תְּחִלָּה; כְּדֶרֶךְ כָּל הַנּוֹלָדִים הוֹצִיאַתָן הָאָרֶץ, נִמְצְאוּ קַרְנָיו קָדְמוּ לְרַגְלָיו (חולין ס.):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**with horns and hooves** Its horns preceded its hooves, because it was created at its height with its horns, and its head emerged from the ground first; the earth thrust them forth in the manner in which all creatures are born, so that its horns preceded its feet.