## Rashi on Psalms Chapter 79

###### Rashi on Psalms 79:1:1
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**לְעִיִּים.** לְגַלִּים. וּמַהוּ מִזְמוֹר, וַהֲלֹא קִינָה הִיא?! אֶלָּא לְפִי שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר ״כִּלָּה ה׳ אֶת חֲמָתוֹ״ (איכה ד:יא), וּבַמֶּה כִּלָּה? ״וַיַּצֶּת אֵשׁ בְּצִיּוֹן״ (איכה ד:יא) – מִזְמוֹר וְשִׁיר הוּא, שֶׁשָּׁפַךְ חֲמָתוֹ עַל עֵצִים וְעַל הָאֲבָנִים וְלֹא עָשָׂה כְּלָיָה בְּבָנָיו:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**into heaps** Now what is this song? Is it not a lamentation? But because it says (Lam. 4:11): “The Lord has spent His fury.” With what has He spent it? “He has kindled a fire in Zion.” This is a song and an occasion for singing, for He poured out His fury on the wood and stones and did not utterly destroy His children.


###### Rashi on Psalms 79:2:1
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**בְּשַׂר חֲסִידֶיךָ.** וַהֲלֹא רְשָׁעִים הָיוּ? אֶלָּא מִשֶּׁקִּבְּלוּ פֻּרְעָנוּתָם, הֲרֵי הֵם חֲסִידִים. וְכֵן הוּא אוֹמֵר ״וְנִקְלָה אָחִיךָ״ (דברים כה:ג) – כֵּיוָן שֶׁלָּקָה, אָחִיךָ הוּא. כֵּן מְפֹרָשׁ בָּאַגָּדָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the flesh of Your pious ones** Now were they not wicked? But since they received their punishment, they are accounted as pious men. Similarly, Scripture states (Deut. 25:3): “your brother would be degraded before your eyes.” As soon as he is lashed, he is your brother. It is explained in this manner in the Aggadah (Mid. Ps. 79:4).


###### Rashi on Psalms 79:4:1
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**וָקֶלֶס.** לְשׁוֹן דִּבָּה, לְדַבֵּר בָּם, כְּמוֹ ״לְמָשָׁל״ (דברים כח:לז):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and derision** Heb. וקלס, an expression of speech, to speak of them as for a byword.


###### Rashi on Psalms 79:5:1
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**עַד מָה.** עַד מָתַי?

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**How long** Heb. עד מה [lit. until what.] Until when?


###### Rashi on Psalms 79:5:2
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**תֶּאֱנַף.** תִּקְצֹף:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Your jealousy** Your wrath,


###### Rashi on Psalms 79:5:3
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**קִנְאָתֶךָ.** חֲמָתְךָ שֶׁאַתָּה מְקַנֵּא לְהִנָּקֵם, לְשׁוֹן ״אֵל קַנָּא״ (שמות כ:ה). אִינְפְרִינְמַנְ״ט בְּלַעַ״ז:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**that You are jealous** to wreak vengeance, an expression of (Exod. 20:5): “a jealous (קנא) God,” emportement or enprenemant in Old French, zealous anger.


###### Rashi on Psalms 79:11:1
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**הוֹתֵר.** פַּתַּח אֲסִירִים מִמַּסְגֵּר שֶׁלָּהֶם, כְּמוֹ ״מַתִּיר אֲסוּרִים״ (תהלים קמו:ז), ״שָׁלַח מֶלֶךְ וַיַּתִּירֵהוּ״ (תהלים קה:כ):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**set free** Heb. הותר, release the prisoners from their prison, as (below 105:20): “A king sent and released him (ויתירהו)”; (146:7), “sets loose (מתיר) the bound.”


###### Rashi on Psalms 79:11:2
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**בְּנֵי תְמוּתָה.** בְּנֵי הַנֶּהֱרֶגֶת עָלֶיךָ, **תְמוּתָה** אִינְמוֹרִינִיד״א בְּלַעַ״ז, וְיֵשׁ דּוּגְמָתוֹ בִּלְשׁוֹן חֲכָמִים: מוּטָב שֶׁיֹּאכְלוּ יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּשַׂר תְּמוּתָה שְׁחוּטָה וְאַל יֹאכְלוּ בְּשַׂר תְּמוּתָה נְבֵלָה, וּפֵרוּשׁוֹ בְּשַׂר מְסֻכֶּנֶת שֶׁשְּׁחָטָהּ בְּמַסֶּכֶת קִדּוּשִׁין (קדושין כא:-כב.):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the children of the mother who died** The children of her who was killed because of You; enmorinede in Old French, doomed to die. There is an example in the Sages’ language: “It is better that Jews eat the flesh of slaughtered dying beasts rather than eat the flesh of the carcasses of dying animals.” That means the flesh of a dying animal that was slaughtered, in tractate Kiddushin (21b).