Psaumes 99

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

The Lord is king; let the nations tremble: he is throned upon cherubs; let earth quake.

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

The Lord is great in Zion, he is high over all the nations.

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

Let them praise your great and terrible name. Holy is he.

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

You are a king who loves justice, equity you have established: justice and right you have wrought for Jacob.

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

Exalt the Lord our God, bow down at his footstool. Holy is he.

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

Among his priests were Moses and Aaron, Samuel among those who called on his name. They called to the Lord, and he gave them answer.

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 pillar of cloud, they kept his commands and the statute 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.

Lord our God, you gave them answer. A God of forgiveness were you to them, who suffered their deeds to go unpunished.

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; bow down at his holy mountain. For holy is the Lord our God.