Psalms 4:7

Many say, “Who will show us goodness?” There are many Jews who see the nations of the world in wealth and tranquility, and say, “Who will show us goodness,” to be wealthy and achieve desires like these people?

Raise up over us Heb. נסה Raise up over us for a banner the light of Your countenance, an expression of (Isa. 62:10): “lift up a banner (נס)”;(ibid. 49:22), “I will raise My standard (נסי).” Another interpretation: נסה is reflordir(?) (resplendir) in Old French, gleam, as (Zech. 9:16), “crown stones gleam (מתנוססות).” But I do not envy them, for joy has been given into my heart from the time that the corn and the wine of the nations have increased. I am confident that if those who anger Him [have] such [tranquility], how much more will those who perform His will have it in the future, which is the day of the reception of their reward!

Many (רַבִּים - rabbim): He returns to mention the words of those seeking falsehood [from v. 3]. For when I and my men were in distress, those seeking falsehood were speaking [these words] against me and against my men:

"Who will show us good?" (מִי־יַרְאֵנוּ טוֹב - Mi yar'enu tov): [Regarding the next word, נְסָה - Nesah ("Bestow" / "Lift up")] Some say: That the word Nesah is from the verbs lacking the Lamed [final root letter] (alumei ha-lamed), [with the root being] נ-ס (N-S). And it properly should have been [formed] according to the pattern of [imperatives like] u-Re'eh ("and see!") and va-Aseh ("and do!"). And it appears in the form that it has [נְסָה, with the final Heh typical of this verb class], similar to (Psalm 119:117) "ve-esh'ah be-chukekha" ("and I will gaze upon Your statutes" - from root שעה). And it is correct [however] for the Heh [in נסה] to be like the Alef [of נשא - N-S-A, lift up], and the Samekh [in נסה] to be like the Shin [of נשא]. [Aside on verb types]: There are verbs called "lacking the Ayin" [middle root letter] (alumei ha-ayin), such as all the verbs [that appear to have only] two letters, like kam (קָם - arose) and shav (שָׁב - returned). And they are all as if one were to say [the imperatives] Kum! (קוּם) and Shuv! (שׁוּב), where the middle letter [Vav or Yod] is hidden (alumah), which corresponds to the Ayin [middle position] of the standard root pattern pa'al. [Returning to נסה]: And it is correct for the Heh to be like the Alef and the Samekh like the Shin, in the manner of (Numbers 6:26): "Yissa Ad-nai panav eilekha" ("May Ad-nai lift up His countenance upon you" - yissa from נשא), and like (Job 4:2): "Ha-nisah davar eilekha til'eh" ("If one attempts/lifts up a word to you, will you be weary?" - ha-nisah).

Many (there be that) say:- – viz. those he has spoken of as sons of men; and he says concerning them, many say of my soul – they say longingly in their rebellion,

Oh that He would shew us prosperity: – that the rebellion of Absalom might succeed, and David perish and his son become king. And my evil is their good, and for it they are longing; but Thou,

Lord, lift up (נסה) the light of Thy countenance upon us: – not according to their purpose. And the word נַסה (is written) with samek (ס) instead of the (usual) sin (שׂ), and is equivalent to נשׂא. And it is possible to explain it according to the sense of and put your trust in the Lord. He says: as for many their thought is only for the prosperity of this world, and they are longing for it and saying Oh that He would shew us prosperity! while I and those with me say, Lord, lift up the light of Thy countenance upon us! All our desire is for the light of Thy countenance for the world to come.