Psaume 29:1-9

1 Psaume de David. Rendez à l'Éternel, vous, fils de Dieu, rendez à l'Éternel la gloire et la force!

2 Rendez à l'Éternel l'honneur dû à son nom; prosternez-vous devant l'Éternel dans une sainte magnificence!

3 La voix de l'Éternel retentit sur les eaux; le Dieu de gloire, l'Éternel, fait tonner sur les grandes eaux.

4 La voix de l'Éternel est puissante; la voix de l'Éternel est magnifique.

5 La voix de l'Éternel brise les cèdres; l'Éternel brise les cèdres du Liban.

6 Il les fait bondir comme un veau; le Liban et le Sirion comme un jeune buffle.

7 La voix de l'Éternel jette des éclats de flammes de feu.

8 La voix de l'Éternel fait trembler le désert; l'Éternel fait trembler le désert de Kadès.

9 La voix de l'Éternel fait enfanter les biches; elle dépouille les forêts; et dans son temple chacun s'écrie: Gloire!

Psaume 29:1-9 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 29

\\<>\\. In the Vulgate Latin version is added, "at the finishing of the tabernacle"; suggesting that this psalm was composed at that time, and on that occasion; not at the finishing of the tabernacle by Moses, but at the finishing of the tent or tabernacle which David made for the ark in Zion, 2Sa 6:17. The title in the Arabic version is, ``a prophecy concerning the incarnation, ark, and tabernacle.'' In the Septuagint version, from whence the Vulgate seems to have taken the clause, it is, at the "exodion", "exit", or "going out of the tabernacle"; that is, of the feast of tabernacles; and which was the eighth day of the feast, and was called true, which word the Septuagint renders exodion, the word here used, Le 23:36, Nu 29:35; though it was on the first of the common days of this feast that this psalm was sung, as Maimonides {w} says. Some think it was composed when the psalmist was in a thunder storm, or had lately been in one, which he in a very beautiful manner describes. Kimchi thinks it refers to the times of the Messiah; and it may indeed be very well interpreted of the Gospel, and is very suitable to Gospel times. {w} Hilchot Tamidin, c. 10. s. 11.