Psaume 99:4-9

4 Qu'on célèbre la force du roi qui aime la justice! Tu affermis la droiture, Tu exerces en Jacob la justice et l'équité.

5 Exaltez l'Eternel, notre Dieu, Et prosternez-vous devant son marchepied! Il est saint!

6 Moïse et Aaron parmi ses sacrificateurs, Et Samuel parmi ceux qui invoquaient son nom, Invoquèrent l'Eternel, et il les exauça.

7 Il leur parla dans la colonne de nuée; Ils observèrent ses commandements Et la loi qu'il leur donna.

8 Eternel, notre Dieu, tu les exauças, Tu fus pour eux un Dieu qui pardonne, Mais tu les as punis de leurs fautes.

9 Exaltez l'Eternel, notre Dieu, Et prosternez-vous sur sa montagne sainte! Car il est saint, l'Eternel, notre Dieu!

Psaume 99:4-9 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 99

This psalm, with the foregoing from Ps 90:1 is ascribed to Moses by Jarchi and others; but cannot be his, since mention is made of Samuel in it, who lived many years after him. The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions, more rightly attribute it to David; the inscription of the Syriac version, after saying it is David's, subjoins,

``concerning the destruction of the Midianites, whom Moses and the people of Israel led captive;''

of which there is not the least mention in it; but it more truly adds,

``and a prophecy concerning the glory of the kingdom of the Messiah;''

as it undoubtedly is.