Salmos 97:1-6

1 Salmo 97
¡El Señor
es rey!
¡Que se goce la tierra!
¡Que se alegren las costas más lejanas!

2 Nubes oscuras lo rodean.
La rectitud y la justicia son el cimiento de su trono.

3 Fuego se extiende delante de él
y calcina a todos sus enemigos.

4 Sus relámpagos destellan por el mundo;
la tierra lo ve y tiembla.

5 Las montañas se derriten como cera delante del Señor
,
delante del Señor de toda la tierra.

6 Los cielos proclaman su justicia;
toda nación ve su gloria.

Salmos 97:1-6 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.''