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 people tremble: he sits between the cherubim; let the earth be moved.

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

The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people.

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

Let them praise your great and terrible name; for it 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 king’s strength also loves judgment; you do establish equity, you execute judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

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

Exalt you the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for 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 among his priests, and Samuel among them that call on his name; they called on the LORD, and he answered them.

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 in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that 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.

You answered them, O LORD our God: you were a God that forgave them, though you took vengeance of their inventions.

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 hill; for the LORD our God is holy.