Commentaries

Mizmor 009, Verse 002

אוֹדֶ֣ה יְ֭הֹוָה בְּכׇל־לִבִּ֑י אֲ֝סַפְּרָ֗ה כׇּל־נִפְלְאוֹתֶֽיךָ

ʾodeh ʾadoonoy bechol–libbiy ʾasappero kol–nifleʾoseycho

I will praise You, LORD, with all my heart; I will tell of all Your wondrous works.

MIDRASH TEHILLIM

1.....(9.5)
I will praise You, LORD, with all my heart;
That is, both with my inclination to good and with my inclination to evel, so that my heart should not be in conflict.

RASHI

1.
...I will tell of all Your wondrous works.
The final redemption, which is equal to all the miracles, as it is said: "Therefore, behold days are coming, says the Lord, when they shall no longer say, "As the Lord lives, Who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt" (Yirmiyahu - Jeremiah 23:7).

RADAK

1.
I will praise You, LORD, with all my heart;
For the death of Goliath the Philistine was a great deliverance to David and to Israel; and for this (reason) he says with my whole heart.
2.
I will tell of all Your wondrous works.
For, in addition to every individual wonder, a man recounts other wonders which are past; as it says, "He made a memorial for His wonders; the Lord is gracious and merciful" (Tehillim 111:4).

Rabbi HIRSCH

1.
I will acknowledge the LORD in every mood of my heart;
[אוֹדֶ֣ה] (ODEH)
Denotes a strong and vigorous expression of our thoughts and feelings as regards a thing or a person, thus, primarily, “to acknowledge.”
(ODEH ... LIBBIY)
is to disclose to someone the feelings which we have for him in our hearts, “to thank” and “to do homage”.
Used here in reference to God, means “to acknowledge God”, to proclaim the awareness and recognition of His existence, "with all my emotions, with every mood of my heart, joyous or sorrowful,” says Israel, “I shall strive to attain clarity as regards God, and I shall proclaim the recognition of God which I shall thus gain.”
“I wish to proclaim all the acts of Your rule which are manifestations of Your direct intervention in the course of history”. These acts are particularly the great miracles that occurred when Israel first became a nation and which revealed the greatness of God.

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