Psaume 48:1-6

1 Cantique. Psaume des enfants de Coré.

2 L'Éternel est grand et très digne de louanges, dans la cité de notre Dieu, sur sa montagne sainte.

3 Elle s'élève avec grâce, la montagne de Sion, joie de toute la terre; du côté du septentrion est la ville du grand Roi.

4 Dieu, dans ses palais, est connu pour une haute retraite.

5 Car voici, les rois s'étaient donné rendez-vous; ils s'étaient avancés ensemble.

6 L'ont-ils vue? Frappés de stupeur, éperdus, ils se sont enfuis à la hâte.

Psaume 48:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 48

\\<>\\. This psalm is entitled a "song psalm", a psalm to be sung vocally; or "a song and psalm" to be sung both vocally and instrumentally; and is one of the spiritual songs the apostle speaks of, Eph 5:19; It was occasioned, as some think, by David's spoiling the Philistines, 2Sa 5:17-21; or, as others, by the deliverance of the people from the Moabites and Ammonites in the times of Jehoshaphat, 2Ch 20:27,28; or, as others, by the deliverance of the inhabitants of Jerusalem from Sennacherib in the times of Hezekiah, 2Ki 19:34,35; though as Kimchi, a celebrated Jewish commentator, owns, it belongs to the times of the Messiah, as the other preceding psalms; and treats of his greatness, and of the praise and glory due to him, and gives large encomiums of his church.