Psaume 94:17-23

17 Si l'Éternel n'eût été mon secours, bientôt mon âme eût habité le lieu du silence.

18 Lorsque j'ai dit: Mon pied a glissé, ta bonté, ô Éternel, m'a soutenu.

19 Quand j'avais beaucoup de pensées au-dedans de moi, tes consolations ont réjoui mon âme.

20 Serais-tu l'allié du trône de méchanceté, qui forge des injustices contre la loi?

21 Ils s'assemblent contre l'âme du juste et condamnent le sang innocent.

22 Mais l'Éternel est ma haute retraite; mon Dieu est le rocher de mon refuge.

23 Il fera retomber sur eux leur iniquité, et les détruira par leur propre méchanceté; l'Éternel notre Dieu les détruira.

Psaume 94:17-23 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 94

Some, as Jarchi and others, think this psalm was written by Moses; others, with greater probability, assign it to David; as do the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions; and which all but the Syriac version say it was composed to be sung on the fourth day of the week, on which day the Talmudists say it was sung; see the argument of the preceding psalm. This psalm and others, that go before and follow, are without any title in the Hebrew Bible: the title of it in the Syriac version is,

``a Psalm of David, concerning the company of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram; but spiritually, concerning the persecution against the church;''

not of the oppression of the Israelites in Egypt, as some; nor of the Jews in their present exile, as Kimchi; but rather of the people of God under the tyranny of antichrist; who are represented as complaining of his insults and cruelty, and as comforting themselves in the hopes of deliverance, and in the view of his destruction.