Psaumes 99

1 L’Éternel règne: que les peuples tremblent! Il est assis entre les chérubins: que la terre s’émeuve!

The LORD reigns; let the nations tremble! He is enthroned above the cherubim; let the earth quake!

2 L’Éternel est grand en Sion, et il est haut élevé par-dessus tous les peuples.

Great is the LORD in Zion; He is exalted above all the peoples.

3 Ils célébreront ton nom grand et terrible: – il est saint! –

Let them praise Your great and awesome name— He is holy!

4 Et la force du roi qui aime la justice. Toi, tu établis la droiture, tu exerces le jugement et la justice en Jacob.

The mighty King loves justice. You have established equity; You have exercised justice and righteousness in Jacob.

5 Exaltez l’Éternel, notre Dieu, et prosternez-vous devant le marchepied de ses pieds: – il est saint!

Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at His footstool; He is holy!

6 Moïse et Aaron, parmi ses sacrificateurs, et Samuel, parmi ceux qui invoquent son nom, crièrent à l’Éternel, et il leur a répondu.

Moses and Aaron were among His priests; Samuel was among those who called on His name. They called to the LORD and He answered.

7 Il leur parla dans la colonne de nuée: ils ont gardé ses témoignages, et le statut qu’il leur avait donné.

He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept His decrees and the statutes He gave them.

8 Éternel, notre Dieu! tu leur as répondu, tu as été pour eux un Dieu qui pardonnait, et prenait vengeance de leurs actes.

O LORD our God, You answered them. You were a forgiving God to them, yet an avenger of their misdeeds.

9 Exaltez l’Éternel, notre Dieu, et prosternez-vous en la montagne de sa sainteté; car l’Éternel, notre Dieu, est saint!

Exalt the LORD our God and worship at His holy mountain, for the LORD our God is holy.