Psaume 32:1-8

1 De David. Cantique. Heureux celui à qui la transgression est remise, A qui le péché est pardonné!

2 Heureux l'homme à qui l'Eternel n'impute pas d'iniquité, Et dans l'esprit duquel il n'y a point de fraude!

3 Tant que je me suis tu, mes os se consumaient, Je gémissais toute la journée;

4 Car nuit et jour ta main s'appesantissait sur moi, Ma vigueur n'était plus que sécheresse, comme celle de l'été. -Pause.

5 Je t'ai fait connaître mon péché, je n'ai pas caché mon iniquité; J'ai dit: J'avouerai mes transgressions à l'Eternel! Et tu as effacé la peine de mon péché. -Pause.

6 Qu'ainsi tout homme pieux te prie au temps convenable! Si de grandes eaux débordent, elles ne l'atteindront nullement.

7 Tu es un asile pour moi, tu me garantis de la détresse, Tu m'entoures de chants de délivrance. -Pause.

8 Je t'instruirai et te montrerai la voie que tu dois suivre; Je te conseillerai, j'aurai le regard sur toi.

Psaume 32:1-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 32

\\<<[A Psalm], of David, Maschil>>\\. This is the first of the psalms that bears this title: some think it is the name of a musical instrument, on which this psalm was sung; others the first word of a song, to the tune of which it was sung, as Aben Ezra; some say it is so called, because it was explained by an interpreter, as Jarchi; and the Rabbins {k} say, that every psalm that is called "Maschil" was dictated by an interpreter: the Targum renders it "a good understanding"; and the word properly signifies "instruction", or "causing to understand" {l}; and it may be the apostle has some reference to this title in 1Co 14:15; It is an instructive psalm; a didascalic ode, as Junius renders it: it gives an account how the psalmist was instructed under a dispensation of Providence; and was brought to a sense of sin, and acknowledgment of it; and was favoured with a discovery of pardoning grace; and in it he takes upon him to instruct others, Ps 32:8,9, and does instruct in the doctrine of the pardon of sin by the grace of God. {k} Elias Levita in Tishbi, p. 271. {l} lykvm "erudiens", Musculus, Munster, Vatablus, Montanus; "informans", Gejerus; "an instructing psalm", Ainsworth.