Psaume 76:9

9 Lorsque Dieu s'est levé pour faire justice, Pour sauver tous les malheureux de la terre. -Pause.

Psaume 76:9 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 76:9

When God arose to judgment
He may sometimes seem to be asleep, and to defer judgment, but he will arise and hasten it in his own time, and will take vengeance on all his and his people's enemies, as he did upon the army of the Assyrians, and will upon the antichristian powers, and upon all the wicked, and at the same time will save his own people, as follows:

to save all the meek of the earth;
the quiet in the land, who are afflicted in this world, despised by the men of it, are lowly and humble, and mean in their own eyes; these the Lord takes notice of and cares for them, he will beautify them with salvation; these, all of them, even everyone of them, shall be saved in him with an everlasting salvation; this verse is by some connected with the preceding; so Kimchi, "the earth feared, and was still, when God arose to judgment", &c. and by others, as R. Moses and Aben Ezra, with the following.

Selah. (See Gill on Psalms 3:2).

Psaume 76:9 In-Context

7 Tu es redoutable, ô toi! Qui peut te résister, quand ta colère éclate?
8 Du haut des cieux tu as proclamé la sentence; La terre effrayée s'est tenue tranquille,
9 Lorsque Dieu s'est levé pour faire justice, Pour sauver tous les malheureux de la terre. -Pause.
10 L'homme te célèbre même dans sa fureur, Quand tu te revêts de tout ton courroux.
11 Faites des voeux à l'Eternel, votre Dieu, et accomplissez-les! Que tous ceux qui l'environnent apportent des dons au Dieu terrible!
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