Psaume 29:5-11

5 La voix de l'Eternel brise les cèdres; L'Eternel brise les cèdres du Liban,

6 Il les fait bondir comme des veaux, Et le Liban et le Sirion comme de jeunes buffles.

7 La voix de l'Eternel fait jaillir des flammes de feu.

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

9 La voix de l'Eternel fait enfanter les biches, Elle dépouille les forêts. Dans son palais tout s'écrie: Gloire!

10 L'Eternel était sur son trône lors du déluge; L'Eternel sur son trône règne éternellement.

11 L'Eternel donne la force à son peuple; L'Eternel bénit son peuple et le rend heureux.

Psaume 29:5-11 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.