Translation:Mikraot Gedolot/Psalms/5:13
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[edit]For You shall bless the righteous; God, as with a shield, [with] favor You shall encompass him.
Rashi
[edit]As with a shield
Which surrounds the three sides of a person.
Favor
Pleasure; apimat in the foreign language.
You shall encompass him
You shall surround him; like (1 Samuel 23:26): and Saul and his men compass David and his men.
Ibn Ezra
[edit]For
This verse is connected to the previous one; that those that love Your name shall exult in You when they see that you will banish the wicked and bless the righteous.
There are those who say: You shall encompass him – from the light construction; like (1 Samuel 23:26): compass David. And the correct [explanation]: that it's from the additional construction like (1 Samuel 17:25)...