Psaume 50:13-23

13 Mangerais-je la chair des forts taureaux, ou boirais-je le sang des boucs?

14 Offre à Dieu le sacrifice de la louange, et accomplis tes vœux envers le Très-Haut;

15 Et invoque-moi au jour de la détresse: je te délivrerai et tu me glorifieras.

16 Mais Dieu dit au méchant: Est-ce à toi de réciter mes lois, et d'avoir mon alliance dans la bouche?

17 Toi qui hais la correction et qui jettes mes paroles derrière toi?

18 Quand tu vois un larron, tu te plais avec lui, et ta portion est avec les adultères.

19 Tu laisses aller ta bouche au mal, et ta langue trame la fraude.

20 Quand tu t'assieds, tu parles contre ton frère; tu diffames le fils de ta mère.

21 Voilà ce que tu as fait, et je me suis tu. Tu as cru que j'étais vraiment comme toi. Je te reprendrai, et je mettrai le tout devant tes yeux.

22 Comprenez donc cela, vous qui oubliez Dieu, de peur que je ne déchire et que personne ne délivre!

23 Celui qui offre pour sacrifice la louange, m'honore; et à celui qui règle sa voie, je ferai voir le salut de Dieu.

Psaume 50:13-23 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 50

\\<>\\. This psalm is called a psalm of Asaph; either because it was composed by him under divine inspiration, since he was a prophet and a seer, 1Ch 25:2, 2Ch 29:30; or because it was delivered to him to be sung in public service, he being a chief musician; see 1Ch 16:7; and so it may be rendered, "a psalm for Asaph"; or "unto Asaph" {o}; which was directed, sent, and delivered to him, and might be written by David; and, as Junius thinks, after the angel had appeared to him, and he was directed where he should build an altar to the Lord, 1Ch 21:18. The Targum, Kimchi, and R. Obadiah Gaon, interpret this psalm of the day of judgment; and Jarchi takes it to be a prophecy of the future redemption by their expected Messiah; and indeed it does refer to the times of the Gospel dispensation; for it treats of the calling of the Gentiles, of the abrogation of legal sacrifices, and of the controversy the Lord would have with the Jews for retaining them, and rejecting pure, spiritual, and evangelical worship. {o} Poal "ipsi Asaph", Tigurine version, Vatablus; "Asapho", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; so Ainsworth.