Salmi 97:1-6

1 IL Signore regna: gioisca la terra; Rallegrinsi le grandi isole.

2 Nuvola e caligine sono d’intorno a lui; Giustizia e giudicio sono il fermo sostegno del suo trono.

3 Fuoco va davanti a lui, E divampa i suoi nemici d’ogn’intorno.

4 I suoi folgori alluminano il mondo; La terra l’ha veduto, ed ha tremato.

5 I monti si struggono come cera per la presenza del Signore, Per la presenza del Signor di tutta la terra.

6 I cieli predicano la sua giustizia, E tutti i popoli veggono la sua gloria.

Salmi 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.''