Rashi on TanakhPsalms 66

Sing the glory of His name Sing in honor of His name. Or: Recite the glory of His name with music and song.

How awesome is each one of Your deeds!

Through the greatness of Your might When You show the world Your mightthrough pestilence, sword, famine, or lightning—

Your enemies, the wicked, confess their lies and sins because of their great fear.

awesome in His deeds Feared by mankind, lest He find a transgression in them, for all their deeds are revealed to You.

He turned the sea into dry land The Sea of Reeds.

there it rejoiced with it I found: There was a thing with which the sea rejoiced, i.e., that the sea saw the Holy One, blessed be He.

will not exalt themselves Their hand will not be high.

O peoples, bless our God for His wonders, that He kept our soul alive in exile, and you cannot annihilate us.

You tested us with distress in the exile.

You refined us to remove the dross from us when we repent before You, as they refine silver to remove its dross.

You brought us into a trap A narrow place, like in a prison.

a chain Heb. מועקה, an expression of locking up, and every [expression of] מֵעִיק and מֵצִיק is like it.

You caused man to ride at our head The kings of all the heathen nations.

I shall come to Your house when You build the Temple, we shall pay our vows that we vowed in exile.

fat Heb. מיחים, fat, an expression of מוֹחַ, marrow.

all you who fear God They are the proselytes who became converted.

My mouth called out to Him When we were in exile, we called out to Him, and we recited His exaltation with our tongue.

and He was exalted Heb. ורומם, like ונתרומם, and He was exalted. I found: With my mouth, I called out to Him. ורומם is a noun. His exaltation is ready under my tongue to be let out of my mouth, as (Job 20:12): “though he hide it under his tongue.”

If I saw iniquity, etc. He did not deal with us according to our sins, but He made Himself as though He neither saw nor heard the iniquity that was in our hearts.

But indeed you should know.

Who did not remove my prayer from before Him, and He did not remove His kindness from me.