## Rashi on Psalms Chapter 99

###### Rashi on Psalms 99:1:1
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**יִרְגְּזוּ עַמִּים.** מְדַבֵּר בְּמִלְחֶמֶת גּוֹג וּמָגוֹג, וְאָז יִרְגְּזוּ עַמִּים כְּעִנְיָן שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (זכריה יד:יב) ״וְזֹאת תִּהְיֶה הַמַּגֵּפָה וְגוֹ׳״:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**nations will quake** [This] deals with the war of Gog and Magog. Then the nations will quake, as the matter that is said (Zech. 14:12): “And this shall be the plague, etc.”


###### Rashi on Psalms 99:1:2
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**תָּנוּט.** לְשׁוֹן ״נָטָיוּ רַגְלָי״ (תהלים עג:ב):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**will falter** Heb. תנוט, an expression of (73:2): “my feet faltered (נטוי).”


###### Rashi on Psalms 99:3:1
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**יוֹדוּ שִׁמְךָ.** יוֹדוּ אֶת עֹז מֶלֶךְ הָאוֹהֵב מִשְׁפָּט (תהלים עג:ב):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**They will acknowledge Your name** They will acknowledge the might of the King Who loves judgment.


###### Rashi on Psalms 99:4:1
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**וְעֹז מֶלֶךְ.** מוּסָב עַל מִקְרָא הָעֶלְיוֹן:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and the might of the King Who loves judgment** This refers back to the preceding verse.


###### Rashi on Psalms 99:4:2
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**אַתָּה כּוֹנַנְתָּ מֵישָׁרִים.** פְּשָׁרָה וְשִׂימַת שָׁלוֹם בֵּין אֲנָשִׁים כּוֹנַנְתָּ, בְּאָמְרְךָ (שמות כג:ה) ״כִּי תִרְאֶה חֲמוֹר שׂוֹנַאֲךָ רוֹבֵץ וְגוֹ׳״, (שמות כג:ד) ״כִּי תִפְגַּע שׁוֹר אוֹיִבְךָ״ וּמִי הוּא שֶׁיִּרְאֶה אֶת שׂוֹנְאוֹ גּוֹמֵל לוֹ חֶסֶד שֶׁלֹּא יִדְּבֶנּוּ לִבּוֹ לְחַבְּקוֹ וּלְנַשְּׁקוֹ, תַּנְחוּמָא (תנחומא, משפטים א):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**You founded equity** You founded compromise and peacemaking between persons, by Your statement (Exod. 23:5): “Should you see your enemy’s donkey lying etc.”; (ibid. verse 4), “Should you come upon Your enemy’s ox, etc.” Now who is it who sees his enemy being kind to him, whose heart will not be inspired to embrace him and kiss him? (Tanchuma).


###### Rashi on Psalms 99:7:1
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**בְּעַמּוּד עָנָן יְדַבֵּר אֲלֵיהֶם.** אַף עִם שְׁמוּאֵל, וְזֶה הוּא שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (שמואל א ט:יא-יב) ״הֲיֵשׁ בָּזֶה הָרֹאֶה וַתַּעֲנֶינָה אוֹתָם וַתֹּאמַרְנָה יֵשׁ״, רָאוּ הֶעָנָן קָשׁוּר עַל פִּתְחוֹ, כְּמָה דְאַתְּ אָמַר ״וְיֵשׁ אֲשֶׁר יִהְיֶה הֶעָנָן״ (במדבר ט:כ):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**In a pillar of cloud He would speak to them** Even with Samuel. This is what is stated (I Sam. 9: 11f.): “and they said to them, Is the seer here? and they answered them and said, He is (יֵש).” You will see a cloud attached to his doorway, as Scripture says (Num. 9:20): “And sometimes the cloud would be...”


###### Rashi on Psalms 99:7:2
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**שָׁמְרוּ עֵדֹתָיו וְחֹק נָתַן לָמוֹ.** וְחֹק אֲשֶׁר נָתַן לָמוֹ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**they kept His testimonies and the statute He gave them** The statute that He gave them.


###### Rashi on Psalms 99:8:1
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**אֵל נוֹשֵׂא.** עֲוֹן יִשְׂרָאֵל:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**a forgiving God** [Forgiving] the iniquity of Israel.


###### Rashi on Psalms 99:8:2
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**הָיִיתָ לָהֶם.** בִּשְׁבִילָם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**for them** Heb. להם, for their sake.


###### Rashi on Psalms 99:8:3
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**וְנוֹקֵם.** הָיִיתָ **עַל עֲלִילוֹתָם**, מֹשֶׁה וְאַהֲרֹן ״שִׁמְעוּ נָא הַמּוֹרִים״ (במדבר כ:י), שְׁמוּאֵל עַל שֶׁלֹּא הִדְרִיךְ בָּנָיו בְּדֶרֶךְ טוֹבָה (שמואל א ח:ג), מֵת בָּחוּר (אגדת בראשית מא:א):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**but vengeful** You were vengeful for their misdeeds: Moses and Aaron for “Hear now, you rebels!” As for Samuel, because he did not direct his sons in the good way, he died young.


###### Rashi on Psalms 99:9:1
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**כִּי קָדוֹשׁ ה׳ אֱלֹהֵינוּ.** עַל אֲשֶׁר הוּא מְדַקְדֵּק עִם הַצַּדִּיקִים הוּא מְקֻדָּשׁ בָּעוֹלָם, וְכֵן הוּא אוֹמֵר ״וְנִקְדַּשׁ בִּכְבוֹדִי״ (שמות כט:מג), בִּמְכֻבָּדַי (זבחים קטו:):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**for the Lord our God is holy** because He is strict with the righteous, He is sanctified in the world, and so He says (Exod. 29:43): “and it will be sanctified with My glory,” meaning “with those glorified by Me.”