Psaume 97:1-8

1 L'Eternel règne: que la terre soit dans l'allégresse, Que les îles nombreuses se réjouissent!

2 Les nuages et l'obscurité l'environnent, La justice et l'équité sont la base de son trône.

3 Le feu marche devant lui, Et embrase à l'entour ses adversaires.

4 Ses éclairs illuminent le monde, La terre le voit et tremble;

5 Les montagnes se fondent comme la cire devant l'Eternel, Devant le Seigneur de toute la terre.

6 Les cieux publient sa justice, Et tous les peuples voient sa gloire.

7 Ils sont confus, tous ceux qui servent les images, Qui se font gloire des idoles. Tous les dieux se prosternent devant lui.

8 Sion l'entend et se réjouit, Les filles de Juda sont dans l'allégresse, A cause de tes jugements, ô Eternel!

Psaume 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.''