Rashi on TanakhPsalms 106

when You favor Your people When You show goodwill to Your people.

and they were rebellious by the sea They had little faith; they said, “Just as we ascend from here, from this side, the Egyptians also are ascending from another side, and they will come after us,” until the Holy One, blessed be He, hinted to the sea, and it vomited them out onto the dry land. Then (Exod. 14:30) “Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.” Therefore (ibid. verse 31) “they believed in the Lord,” but in the beginning, they did not believe. I found this.

and He led them in the depths in the desert The Sea of Reeds was in the desert, for it is written (Exod. 14:13): “the desert has closed upon them, etc.”; (Exod. 3:18): “three days’ journey in the desert.”

they did not await His counsel They did not hope for Him.

They craved a lust (Num. 11:4) “Who will give us meat to eat?”

but He sent emaciation into their soul (Num. 11:33) “and the Lord’s wrath was kindled against the people.”

They angered Moses Heb. ויקנאו. In the desert they angered him, like (Deut. 32:21): “They angered Me (קנאוני) with a no-god.” I found this.

The earth opened up, etc. It appears that [the Psalmist] bestowed honor upon the sons of Korah [by refraining] from mentioning their father. He attributed the sin to Dathan and Abiram.

And fire burned (Num. 16:35) “and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who burnt the incense. “

eating grass There is nothing as disgusting and repugnant as an ox. When it eats grass, it emits much dung, with which it sullies itself. Other books read: its saliva.

They rejected the desirable land when the spies were sent out, and they brought calumny on the land (Num. 13:32).

He raised His hand with an oath.

And to cast their seed among the nations From that time, the destruction of the Temple was decreed upon them, for on the night of the ninth of Ab they went, and the Holy One, blessed be He, said, “They wept for nothing, and I shall establish for them weeping for generations.”

For they rebelled Moses and Aaron.

against His spirit with (Num. 20:10) “Hear now, you rebels!”

and He uttered with His lips an oath (Num. 20:12): “Therefore you shall not bring this community, etc.”

They did not destroy in the days of Joshua.

the peoples whom the Lord had told them (Deut. 20:16): “You shall not allow a soul to remain alive”; (Exod. 23:33), “They shall not remain as residents in your land,” but they allowed them to dwell in their midst, paying tribute.

And He delivered them into the hands of nations in the days of the Judges between one judge and another, e.g. Eglon, Cushan-rishathaim, Sisera, the Philistines, and Midian. (I found.)

Many times He saved them Many times they provoked Him; yet He was slow to anger and saved them.

and they were humbled because of their iniquity Heb. וימכו, and they were humbled because of their iniquity.

But He looked upon their distress On account of prayer.

when He heard their cries On account of the merit of the Patriarchs.

And He remembered His covenant On account of repentance.

and He relented in accordance with His abundant kindness On account of the end, when He heard, “Save us, etc.” Moses, too, included them in one verse (Deut. 4:30): “In this distress that will befall you etc.”

save us now also, O Lord, our God.

from world to world From this world to the world to come.