## Rashi on Psalms Chapter 73

###### Rashi on Psalms 73:1:1
[Rashi on Psalms 73:1:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:1:1)

**אַךְ טוֹב לְיִשְׂרָאֵל אֱלֹהִים.** לְפִי שֶׁעִנְיַן הַמִּזְמוֹר מְדַבֵּר בַּצָּרוֹת הַבָּאוֹת עַל עוֹבְדֵי הַמָּקוֹם, לְכָךְ פָּתַח בּוֹ כָּךְ. וְזֶהוּ פֵּרוּשׁוֹ: אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁאֲנִי צוֹעֵק וּמִתְמֵהַּ עַל צָרוֹתֵיהֶם שֶׁל יִשְׂרָאֵל, יָדַעְתִּי כִּי הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא טוֹב לָהֶם, וּלְטוֹבָתָם הוּא מֵבִיא עֲלֵיהֶם אֶת הָרָעָה כְּדֵי לְזַכּוֹתָם לְחַיֵּי הָעוֹלָם הַבָּא:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**A song of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, etc.** Since the topic of this psalm deals with the troubles that befall Israel, he commences it in this manner. And this is the meaning: Although I cry out and am dismayed at Israel’s troubles, I knew that the Holy One, blessed be He, is good to them, and that He brings evil upon them for their own good, in order to give them merit in the life of the world to come.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:2:1
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**וַאֲנִי.** מִטֶּרֶם שׂוּמִי זֹאת אֶל לִבִּי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**But as for me** before I laid this to my heart.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:2:2
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**כִּמְעַט נָטְיוּ רַגְלָי וְשֻׁפְּכוּ אֲשֻׁרַי.** לִנְטוֹת מֵאַחֲרֵי הַמָּקוֹם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**my feet had almost turned away** and my steps swept away to turn away from following the Omnipresent.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:3:1
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**כִּי קִנֵּאתִי בַּהוֹלְלִים.** בִּמְעַרְבְּבֵי דַרְכֵיהֶם אֲשֶׁר הָיִיתִי רוֹאֶה אֶת שְׁלוֹמָם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**For I envied the perverse** Those who pervert their ways, whose tranquility I would see.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:3:2
[Rashi on Psalms 73:3:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:3:2)

**בַּהוֹלְלִים.** מְעַרְבְּבִים, כְּמוֹ (ישעיהו א:כב) ״סָבְאֵךְ מָהוּל בַּמָּיִם״ (ס״א אינו):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the perverse** Heb. בהוללים, mixed, as (Isa. 1:22): “your wine is diluted (מהול) with water.”


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:4:1
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**כִּי אֵין חַרְצֻבּוֹת לְמוֹתָם.** לְשׁוֹן אֲסִירָה, כְּמוֹ ״פַּתֵּחַ חַרְצֻבּוֹת רֶשַׁע״ (ישעיה נח:ו), מַסְגְּרֵי כַּבְלֵי רֶשַׁע שֶׁאוֹסְרִין בָּהֶן הָעֲנִיִּים. אַף כָּאן: אֵין יִסּוּרִין לְמִיתָתָם, הַמֵּתִים בָּהֶם מֵהֶם בְּרִיאִים **כְּאוּלָם**, בְּלֹא יִסּוּרִין. וְרַבּוֹתֵינוּ פֵּרְשׁוּ **חַרְצֻבּוֹת** נוֹטְרִיקוֹן: שֶׁאֵין חֲרֵדִין וְעַצְבִין מִיּוֹם הַמִּיתָה (שבת לא:). דָּבָר אַחֵר: שֶׁאֵין הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא מְאַחֵר צִבְיוֹנָם (פֵּרוּשׁ רְצוֹנָם):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**For there are no fetters to their death** Heb. חרצבות, an expression of tying, as (Isa. 58:6): “to undo the fetters (חרצבות) of wickedness,” meaning the locks of the fetters with which they bind the poor. Here, too, there are no pains to their death. Those who die among them die healthy, [strong as] a palace, without pains. But our Rabbis explained חַרְצֻבּוֹת as an abbreviation, meaning that they are not (שאין) frightened (חרדין) or saddened (עצבין) by the day of death (Shab. 31b). Another explanation: that the Holy One, blessed be He, does not delay (מאחר) their desire (צביונם).


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:6:1
[Rashi on Psalms 73:6:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:6:1)

**לָכֵן עֲנָקַתְמוֹ גַאֲוָה.** בַּעֲבוּר זֶה שֶׁאֵין יִסּוּרִין בָּאִין עֲלֵיהֶם, הֶעֱנִיקָתַם הַגַּאֲוָה לַעֲלוֹת עַל צַוָּארָם גַּסּוּת הָרוּחַ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Therefore, they wear pride as a necklace** Because of this, pride adorns them as a necklace, insofar as it ascends upon his neck.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:6:2
[Rashi on Psalms 73:6:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:6:2)

**יַעֲטֹף שִׁית חָמָס לָמוֹ.** הֶחָמָס שֶׁעוֹשִׂין, עוֹשֶׂה אוֹתָם שְׁמֵנִים וְעוֹטֵף אֶת שְׁתוֹתֵיהֶם וַעֲגָבוֹתֵיהֶם בְּעֹבִי שׁוּמָן וּבָשָׂר:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the robbery that they commit envelopes their hips** The robbery they commit makes them fat, enveloping their buttocks and hips with thickness of fat and flesh.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:7:1
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**יָצָא מֵחֵלֶב עֵינֵימוֹ.** עֵינֵיהֶם בּוֹלְטוֹת מֵרֹב שׁוּמָן, כָּל אָדָם כָּחוּשׁ עֵינָיו מְשׁוּקָּעוֹת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Because of their fat, their eyes bulge** Their eyes bulge because of the abundant fat, for in an emaciated person, the eyes are sunken.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:7:2
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**עָבְרוּ מַשְׂכִּיּוֹת לֵבָב.** יוֹתֵר מִמַּה שֶּׁלִּבָּם מְיַחֵל וּמְצַפֶּה, בָּאָה לָהֶם תַּאֲוָתָם. עָבְרוּ בָּהֶם בְּהַשָּׂגַת יָדָם אֶת תַּאֲוַת לִבָּם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**they surpassed the imaginings of their heart** More than what their heart hopes for and awaits, came to them. In the attainment of their hand, they surpassed the desire of their heart.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:8:1
[Rashi on Psalms 73:8:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:8:1)

**יָמִיקוּ.** אֶת רֵעֵיהֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**They consume** their neighbors.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:8:2
[Rashi on Psalms 73:8:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:8:2)

**וִידַבְּרוּ בְרָע עֹשֶׁק.** לַעֲשׁוֹק אֶבְיוֹנִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and speak wickedly about oppression** To oppress the needy.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:8:3
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**מִמָּרוֹם יְדַבֵּרוּ.** כְּגוֹן פַּרְעֹה וְסַנְחֵרִיב וּנְבוּכַדְנֶצַּר: ״מִי ה׳ אֲשֶׁר אֶשְׁמַע בְּקוֹלוֹ״ (שמות ה:ב), ״מִי בְּכָל אֱלֹהֵי הָאֲרָצוֹת״ (מלכים ב יח:לה), ״אֶעֱלֶה עַל בָּמֳתֵי עָב״ (ישעיהו יד:יד). וְזֶהוּ שָׁתוּ בַשָּׁמַיִם פִּיהֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**they speak about the Most High** e.g. Pharaoh, Sennacherib, and Nebuchadnezzar. [Pharaoh said] (Exod. 5:2): “Who is the Lord that I should obey Him?” [Sennacherib said] (Isa. 36:20), “Who are they among all the gods of the lands...?” [Nebuchadnezzar said] (Isa. 14:14), “I will ascend above the heights of the clouds.” That is the meaning of: “They have set their mouth against Heaven.”


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:10:1
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**לָכֵן יָשׁוּב עַמּוֹ הֲלֹם.** לְפִי שֶׁעַמּוֹ רוֹאִים ״דֶּרֶךְ רְשָׁעִים צָלֵחָה״ (ירמיה יב:א), יָשׁוּבוּ עַל דֶּרֶךְ הָרְשָׁעִים לָלֶכֶת בְּדַרְכֵיהֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Therefore, His people will return here** Since His people sees that the way of the wicked prospers, they will return on the way of the wicked, to adopt their ways.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:10:2
[Rashi on Psalms 73:10:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:10:2)

**הֲלֹם.** כְּמוֹ ״מִי הֲבִיאֲךָ הֲלֹם״ (שופטים יח:ג) – פֹּה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**here** Heb. הלם, as (Jud. 18: 3): “Who brought you here (הלום)?” [Equivalent to] פֹּה.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:10:3
[Rashi on Psalms 73:10:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:10:3)

**וּמֵי מָלֵא יִמָּצוּ לָמוֹ.** וּמַיִם שֶׁל פֶּלֶג הַמָּלֵא, הֵם דִּבְרֵי תוֹרָה, נֶחְשָׁבִים לָמוֹ תַּמְצִית וּמְזֻלְזָלִים בְּעֵינֵיהֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and the waters of the full are drain water to them** And the waters of the full stream—they are words of Torah—are considered by them as water that drains out, and they despise them.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:11:1
[Rashi on Psalms 73:11:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:11:1)

**וְאָמְרוּ אֵיכָה יָדַע אֵל.** אֵיכָה נוּכַל לוֹמַר שֶׁ**יֵּשׁ דֵּעָה** בְּהַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא, וְתוֹרָתוֹ אֱמֶת?

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And they say, “How does God know”** How can we say that there is knowledge in the Holy One, blessed be He, and that His Torah is true?


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:12:1
[Rashi on Psalms 73:12:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:12:1)

**הִנֵּה אֵלֶּה רְשָׁעִים.** הֵם וְעוֹבְרִים עַל תּוֹרָתוֹ, וַהֲרֵי הֵם שְׁלֵוִים בָּעוֹלָם וּמַגְדִּילִים כֹּחַ וְעֹשֶׁר:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Behold these are wicked** They [are wicked] and transgress His Torah; yet they are tranquil in the world and increase power and wealth.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:12:2
[Rashi on Psalms 73:12:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:12:2)

**וְשַׁלְוֵי עוֹלָם.** לְשׁוֹן שַׁלְוָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**they are tranquil in the world** An expression of tranquility.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:12:3
[Rashi on Psalms 73:12:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:12:3)

**הִשְׂגּוּ.** הִגְדִּילוּ, וּמְנַחֵם פֵּירֵשׁ ״יָשׁוּב עַמּוֹ הֲלוֹם״ (תהלים י:י), יָשׁוּב הָרָשָׁע לַהֲלוֹם אֶת עַמּוֹ שֶׁל הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא. וְהָרִאשׁוֹן לָמַדְתִּי מִדְּבָרָיו שֶׁל רַבִּי מֵאִיר בַּר יִצְחָק שְׁלִיחַ צִבּוּר זַצַ״ל:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**have increased** Heb. השגו, have increased. Menachem (p. 72) explains: יָשוּב עַמוֹ הֲלוֹם, the wicked will return to crush (להלם) the people of the Holy One, blessed be He. The first interpretation I learned from the words of Rabbi Meir the son of Isaac, the cantor, may the memory of the righteous be for a blessing.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:13:1
[Rashi on Psalms 73:13:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:13:1)

**אַךְ רִיק זִכִּיתִי לְבָבִי.** כָּל זֶה מוּסָב עַל **וְאָמְרוּ אֵיכָה יָדַע אֵל**, וְגַם אוֹמֵר: אַךְ לָרִיק וְעַל חִנָּם אָנוּ שׁוֹמְרִים מִצְווֹתָיו שֶׁל הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא, וַהֲרֵי אָנוּ נְגוּעִים כָּל הַיּוֹם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**But for nought I cleansed my heart** All this refers back to: “And they say, ‘How does God know?’” They also say, “But for nothing and in vain we keep the commandments of the Holy One, blessed be He, for behold, we are plagued all the days.”


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:14:1
[Rashi on Psalms 73:14:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:14:1)

**וְתוֹכַחְתִּי.** נִרְאֵית כָּל הַיּוֹם תָּמִיד, מִבֹּקֶר לְבֹקֶר מִתְחַדְּשׁוֹת צָרוֹת חֲדָשׁוֹת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and my chastisement** appears all day; constantly, from morning to morning, new troubles are renewed.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:15:1
[Rashi on Psalms 73:15:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:15:1)

**אִם אָמַרְתִּי אֲסַפְּרָה כְמוֹ.** אָמַר אָסָף: אִם אָמַרְתִּי בְּלִבִּי לְסַפֵּר אֶת הַכֹּל כְּמוֹ שֶׁהוּא, כָּל מַה שֶּׁעַמּוֹ אוֹמֵר עַל זֹאת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**If I said, “I shall tell it as it is”** Said Asaph, “If I said in my heart to tell everything as it is, all that His people say about this.”


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:15:2
[Rashi on Psalms 73:15:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:15:2)

**הִנֵּה דוֹר בָּנֶיךָ בָגָדְתִּי.** כְּלוֹמַר אָשִׂים אוֹתָם בּוֹגְדִים וּרְשָׁעִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**behold I have made the generation of Your children into traitors** That is to say that I would make them into traitors and wicked men.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:16:1
[Rashi on Psalms 73:16:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:16:1)

**וָאֲחַשְּׁבָה.** בְּלִבִּי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And when I ponder** in my heart.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:16:2
[Rashi on Psalms 73:16:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:16:2)

**לָדַעַת זֹאת.** מַה הִיא מִדָּתוֹ שֶׁל הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא. כֵּן **הוּא עָמָל בְּעֵינַי.** נִרְאֵית הָיְתָה מִדָּה זֹאת לִי עָמָל וְלֹא מִשְׁפָּט:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**to know this** what the manner of the Holy One, blessed be He, is. **So it is iniquity in my eyes**. This manner appeared to me as iniquity and not justice.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:17:1
[Rashi on Psalms 73:17:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:17:1)

**עַד.** אֲשֶׁר בָּאתִי **אֶל מִקְדְּשֵׁי אֵל.** אֲשֶׁר בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם, וְרָאִיתִי מַה שֶּׁאֵרַע בְּסַנְחֵרִיב (מלכים ב יט:לה-לו), וְאָז הֵבִינוֹתִי לְאַחֲרִית הָרְשָׁעִים שֶׁהוּא לַאֲבַדּוֹן וְאָמַרְתִּי: אַךְ כָּל הַטּוֹבָה הַבָּאָה לָהֶם חֲלָקוֹת הֵם, שֶׁהַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא מַחֲלִיק לָהֶם הַדֶּרֶךְ שֶׁלָּהֶם, שֶׁתְּהֵא נוֹחָה וַחֲלָקָה, לְמַעַן לֹא יִתְּנוּ לֵב לָשׁוּב אֵלָיו וְיֹאבְדוּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Until** I came **to the sanctuaries of God**, which are in Jerusalem, and saw what happened to Sennacherib. Then I understood the end of the wicked, that it is to destruction. Then I said, “All the good that comes to them is only slippery places; for the Holy One, blessed be He, makes their way slippery, that it should be easy and smooth, so that they should not put their heart to return to Him, and they should perish.”


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:18:1
[Rashi on Psalms 73:18:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:18:1)

**אַךְ בַּחֲלָקוֹת תָּשִׁית לָמוֹ.** כָּל הַטּוֹבָה הַבָּאָה לָהֶם, שֶׁהֲרֵי סוֹפָם **הִפַּלְתָּם לְמַשּׁוּאוֹת**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Only in slippery places do You set them** All the goodness that comes to them, for ultimately, You cast them down to ruin.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:19:1
[Rashi on Psalms 73:19:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:19:1)

**מִן בַּלָּהוֹת.** מִן שֵׁדִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**by terrors** By demons.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:20:1
[Rashi on Psalms 73:20:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:20:1)

**כַּחֲלוֹם מֵהָקִיץ.** כְּשֵׁינָה שֶׁאֵין לָהּ קֵץ, שֶׁהוּא שֵׁינַת עוֹלָם, כֵּן הָיְתָה לָהֶם: ״וַיֵּצֵא מַלְאַךְ ה׳ וַיַּךְ בְּמַחֲנֵה אַשּׁוּר״ (ישעיהו לז:לו; מלכים ב יט:לה):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**As a dream without awakening** As a sleep without end (without awakening), which is an eternal sleep, so did they have (Isa. 37:36): “And an angel of the Lord went forth and slew...of the camp of Assyria.”


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:20:2
[Rashi on Psalms 73:20:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:20:2)

**אֲדֹנָי בָּעִיר צַלְמָם תִּבְזֶה.** בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם, שֶׁהֵרֵעוּ עָלֶיהָ, שָׁם נִתְבַּזָּה צֶלֶם דְּמוּתָם וְנִשְׂרְפוּ כֻּלָּם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**O Lord, in the city You will despise their form** In Jerusalem, with which they dealt evilly, there the form of their image was despised, and they were all burnt.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:21:1
[Rashi on Psalms 73:21:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:21:1)

**כִּי יִתְחַמֵּץ לְבָבִי.** מִטֶּרֶם שֶׁרָאִיתִי מַפָּלָה זוֹ בְּרוּחַ הַקֹּדֶשׁ הָיָה לְבָבִי מִתְחַמֵּץ עַל דֶּרֶךְ הָרְשָׁעִים שֶׁצָּלְחָה (ירמיה יב:א), וּבְכִלְיוֹתַי הָיִיתִי מִשְׁתּוֹנָן, לְשׁוֹן חֶרֶב שָׁנוּן (משלי כה:יח), וּכְשֶׁהוּא מִתְפַּעֵל הַתָּי״ו נִתֶּנֶת בְּאֶמְצַע שֹׁרֶשׁ הַתֵּיבָה כְּדֶרֶךְ כָּל תֵּיבָה שֶׁיְּסוֹד תְּחִלָּתָהּ שִׁי״ן:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**For my heart was in ferment** Before I saw this downfall with the holy spirit, my heart was in ferment because the way of the wicked prospered, and my mind was on edge (אשתונן), an expression of a sharpened sword (שנון). When it is reflexive, the “tav” is placed in the middle of the radical, as is the case of every word whose radical commences with “shin.”


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:22:1
[Rashi on Psalms 73:22:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:22:1)

**וַאֲנִי.** הָיִיתִי **בַעַר** וְלֹא הָיִיתִי יוֹדֵעַ מַה הִיא הַמִּדָּה, **וְכִבְהֵמָה הָיִיתִי עִמָּךְ**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**But I** was brutish, and I did not know what this manner was, and I was as a beast with You.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:23:1
[Rashi on Psalms 73:23:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:23:1)

**וַאֲנִי.** אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁהָיִיתִי רוֹאֶה כָּל זֶה, **תָּמִיד הָיִיתִי עִמָּךְ.** וְלֹא זַזְתִּי מִיִּרְאָתְךָ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Yet I** Although I saw all this constantly, I was with You, and I did not move from fear of You.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:23:2
[Rashi on Psalms 73:23:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:23:2)

**אָחַזְתָּ בְּיַד יְמִינִי.** לְהַחֲזִיקֵנִי בְּיִרְאָתְךָ, כְּשֶׁקָּרְבוּ רַגְלַי לִנְטוֹת מִדַּרְכֶּךָ; כְּמוֹ שֶׁאָמַר לְמַעְלָה **כִּמְעַט נָטָיוּ רַגְלָי**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**You grasped my right hand** to strengthen me in Your fear when my feet are about to turn from Your way, as it is stated above (verse 2): “my feet had almost turned away.”


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:24:1
[Rashi on Psalms 73:24:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:24:1)

**תַּנְחֵנִי.** נְחִיתַנִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**You led me** Heb. תנחני, [like] נחיתני, You led me.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:24:2
[Rashi on Psalms 73:24:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:24:2)

**וְאַחַר כָּבוֹד תִּקָּחֵנִי.** אִלּוּ הָיָה טַעַם עַל כָּבוֹד, הָיָה פִּתְרוֹנוֹ: לְאַחַר שֶׁהִשְׁלַמְתָּ לְסַנְחֵרִיב כָּל הַכָּבוֹד שֶׁפָּסַקְתָּ לוֹ, תִּקָּחֵנוּ אֵלֶיךָ. הִפְלֵאתָ נִסֶּיךָ לְיִשְׂרָאֵל וְהֶחֱרַבְתָּ אֶת סַנְחֵרִיב. עַכְשָׁיו שֶׁהַטַּעַם עַל וְאַחַרֵי כֵּן, זֶה פִּתְרוֹנוֹ: **וְאַחַר**, לְכָבוֹד תִּקָּחֵנִי – מְשַׁכְתַּנִי אֵלֶיךָ לְכָבוֹד וּלְתִפְאֶרֶת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and after[wards], You took me [for] glory** If the cantillation sign were on כָּבוֹד, its interpretation would be: After You bestowed upon Sennacherib all the glory You had allotted to him, You will take me to You. You have performed wondrous miracles for Israel and have destroyed Sennacherib. Now that the cantillation sign is on ואחר, this is its interpretation: (and afterwards,) You took me to glory; You drew me to You for glory and beauty.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:25:1
[Rashi on Psalms 73:25:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:25:1)

**מִי לִי בַשָּׁמָיִם.** שׁוּם מַלְאָךְ שֶׁבָּחַרְתִּי לִי לֶאֱלוֹהַּ? לֹא בָחַרְתִּי אֶלָּא אוֹתְךָ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**For whom do I have in heaven** [Was there] any angel that I chose for me as a god? I chose only You.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:26:1
[Rashi on Psalms 73:26:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:26:1)

**כָּלָה שְׁאֵרִי.** נִתְאַוָּה בְּשָׂרִי וּלְבָבִי לְךָ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**My flesh...yearn** My flesh and my heart yearn for You.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:26:2
[Rashi on Psalms 73:26:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:26:2)

**כָּלָה שְׁאֵרִי.** לְשׁוֹן תַּאֲוָה, כְּמוֹ ״כָּלְתָה לִתְשׁוּעָתְךָ נַפְשִׁי״ (תהלים קיט:פא):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**yearn** Heb. כלה, an expression of desire, as (119:81): “My soul yearned (כלתה) for Your salvation.”


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:27:1
[Rashi on Psalms 73:27:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:27:1)

**זוֹנֶה מִמֶּךָּ.** נִפְרָד מִמְּךָ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**who strays from You** Who separates himself from You.


###### Rashi on Psalms 73:28:1
[Rashi on Psalms 73:28:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/73:28:1)

**מַלְאֲכוֹתֶיךָ.** שְׁלִיחוּתֶיךָ, רוּחַ הַקֹּדֶשׁ הַבָּא בְּלִבִּי לֵאמֹר:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Your mission** Your message; the holy spirit that comes into my heart to say it.