Psalm 97:1-8

1 Jehova regiert. Es frohlocke die Erde, mögen sich freuen die vielen Inseln!

2 Gewölk und Dunkel sind um ihn her; Gerechtigkeit und Gericht sind seines Thrones Grundfeste.

3 Feuer geht vor ihm her und entzündet seine Feinde ringsum.

4 Seine Blitze erleuchteten den Erdkreis: die Erde sah es und bebte.

5 Die Berge zerschmolzen wie Wachs, vor Jehova, vor dem Herrn der ganzen Erde.

6 Die Himmel verkündeten seine Gerechtigkeit, und alle Völker sahen seine Herrlichkeit.

7 Mögen beschämt werden alle Diener der Bilder, die der Nichtigkeiten sich rühmen; fallet vor ihm nieder, ihr Götter alle!

8 Zion hörte es und freute sich, und es frohlockten die Töchter Judas, wegen deiner Gerichte, Jehova.

Psalm 97:1-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 97

This psalm is ascribed to David by the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions. It is of the same argument, and upon the same subject, as the preceding, the coming and kingdom of Christ; and that it respects his first coming into the world, when angels were called upon to worship him, appears from Ps 97:7 compared with Heb 1:6 though it is expressed in such language as seems to agree with his second coming; and, perhaps, both are included, with various things between the one and the other; or it respects the kingdom of Christ, from his first to his second coming; to which agrees the inscription of the Syriac version, which is

``a Psalm of David, in which he prophesies concerning the coming of the Messiah, and again he intimates in it his last appearance.''