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The supplicant of our psalm beseeches God to spare him from <\/span>pachad \u2018oyev<\/span><\/em> (2), which can be interpreted in two very different fashions. The standard translation is \u201cthe enemy\u2019s terror,\u201d which denotes the threat or intimidation emanating from the enemy. However, it can also mean that rather than beseeching God to save him from his enemies, per se\u2014as he had already done several times\u2014he was now asking that He spare him from <\/span>his<\/span><\/em> \u201cfear of the enemy,\u201d which is how Robert Alter translated it. This would allow for a meaningful psychological insight strongly reminiscent of the famous remark of FDR: \u201cWe have nothing to fear but fear itself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It continues with a plea to be concealed \u201cfrom a band (<\/span>sod<\/span><\/em>) of evil men, from a crowd (<\/span>merig\u2019shat<\/span><\/em>) of evildoers\u201d (3). As Alter noted, the verbal root R-G-Sh \u201cindicates an agitated condition\u2026 Given that the malice of the evil men here is expressed in slanderous speech (\u201cwho whetted their tongue like a sword,\u201d v.4), <\/span>hubbub<\/span><\/em> seems an appropriate term for this particular agitation\u201d (The Hebrew Bible, vol. 3, 156 note).<\/span><\/p>\n

Rashi, here, marched to a very different tune. Basing himself on what he called a \u201cPsalms Legend\u201d (<\/span>Aggadat Tehillim<\/span><\/em>), he attributed the entire psalm to a prophecy David had about Daniel.<\/span><\/p>\n

This psalm was expounded by the authors of <\/span>Aggadat Tehillim<\/span><\/em> about Daniel who was cast into the lions\u2019 den and the entire psalm suits it well. David foresaw the entire episode prophetically and prayed for him since Daniel was his descendant, as it was told to King Hezekiah: \u201cYour descendants will be taken to serve as eunuchs in the court of the Babylonian king\u201d (Isaiah 39:7), alluding to Hananiah, Mishaal, and Azariah.<\/span><\/p>\n

The fear of the enemy refers to the necromancers who plotted against [Daniel], to wit: \u201cThereupon, the ministers and satraps looked for some fault in Daniel\u2019s conduct” (Daniel 6:5).<\/span><\/p>\n

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