Psaumes 99

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

Yahweh reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned among the cherubim. Let the earth be moved.

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

Yahweh is great in Zion. He is high 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 King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

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

Exalt Yahweh our God. 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 call on his name. They called on Yahweh, 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 pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies, the statute 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, Yahweh our God. You are a God who forgave them, although you took vengeance for their doings.

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

Exalt Yahweh, our God. Worship at his holy hill, for Yahweh, our God, is holy!