Judges 5:31
So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
הערת לימוד
Study Note
The closing benediction of Deborah's Song — 'so let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might' — employs solar imagery for the triumphant righteous, drawing on ancient Near Eastern motifs of the sun-god's victory and radiant power over chaos. The antithetical structure (perishing enemies / radiant lovers of God) mirrors the Beatitudes' structure of blessing and curse and the Psalter's frequent contrast between the wicked's fate and the righteous's flourishing. The image of the righteous 'going forth in might' as the sun is applied in Malachi 4:2 to the 'Sun of Righteousness' who rises with healing in his wings, a verse the Christian tradition applied to Christ's resurrection. Daniel 12:3 ('they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament') and Matthew 13:43 ('the righteous shall shine forth as the sun') develop the same solar metaphor for eschatological vindication.
תרגומים נוספים
So let all thine enemies perish, O Jehovah: But let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
So do all Thine enemies perish, O Jehovah, And those loving Him <FI>are<Fi> As the going out of the sun in its might!' and the land resteth forty years.
So may destruction come on all your haters, O Lord; but let your lovers be like the sun going out in his strength. And for forty years the land had peace.
הפניות צולבות
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all …
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.
And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness …
Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy …
And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.
For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with …
Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.