Psaume 59:13-18

13 Chaque parole de leurs lèvres est un péché de leur bouche; qu'ils soient donc pris dans leur orgueil, à cause des imprécations et des mensonges qu'ils profèrent!

14 Consume-les avec fureur, consume-les et qu'ils ne soient plus; et qu'on sache que Dieu règne en Jacob et jusqu'aux extrémités de la terre. (Sélah. )

15 Qu'ils reviennent le soir, hurlant comme des chiens, et parcourant la ville;

16 Qu'ils aillent çà et là, cherchant à manger, et qu'ils passent la nuit sans être rassasiés!

17 Mais moi, je chanterai ta force; je célébrerai dès le matin ta bonté; car tu as été ma haute retraite et mon refuge au jour de la détresse.

18 Toi, ma force, je te psalmodierai. Car Dieu est ma haute retraite et le Dieu qui me fait voir sa bonté.

Psaume 59:13-18 Meaning and Commentary

To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. The history of Saul's sending messengers to watch the house of David, and to kill him when he rose in the morning, is in 1 Samuel 19:11; which was the occasion of his writing this psalm; though the title of the Syriac version of it is, "David said or composed this, when he heard that the priests were slain by Saul:" and in the same is added, "but unto us it declares the conversion of the Gentiles to the faith, and the rejection of the Jews." And which perhaps is designed in Psalm 59:5; and some interpreters are of opinion that the whole psalm is to be understood of Christ, of whom David was a type, especially in his sufferings; and there are some things in it which better agree with him than with David, as particularly his being without sin, Psalm 59:3.