Psaumes 21

1Au maître de chant. Psaume de David.

2Yahweh, le roi se réjouit de ta force ; comme ton secours le remplit d’allégresse !

3Tu lui as donné ce que son cœur désirait, tu n’as pas refusé ce que demandaient ses lèvres. — Séla.

4Car tu l’as prévenu de bénédictions exquises, tu as mis sur sa tête une couronne d’or pur.

5Il te demandait la vie, tu la lui as donnée, de longs jours à jamais et à perpétuité.

6Sa gloire est grande, grâce à ton secours ; tu mets sur lui splendeur et magnificence.

7Tu le rends à jamais un objet de bénédictions ; tu le combles de joie devant ta face.

8Car le roi se confie en Yahweh, et par la bonté du Très-Haut il ne chancelle point.

9Ta main, ô roi, atteindra tous tes ennemis, ta droite atteindra ceux qui te haïssent.

10Tu les rendras comme une fournaise ardente, au jour où tu montreras ta face ; Yahweh les anéantira dans sa colère, et le feu les dévorera.

11Tu feras disparaître de la terre leur postérité, et leur race d’entre les enfants des hommes.

12Ils ont préparé pour toi la ruine, ils ont conçu des desseins pervers, mais ils seront impuissants.

13Car tu leur feras tourner le dos ; de tes traits tu les viseras au front.

14Lève-toi, Yahweh, dans ta force ! Nous voulons chanter et célébrer ta puissance.

1In finem. Psalmus David.

2[Domine, in virtute tua lætabitur rex, et super salutare tuum exsultabit vehementer.

3Desiderium cordis ejus tribuisti ei, et voluntate labiorum ejus non fraudasti eum.

4Quoniam prævenisti eum in benedictionibus dulcedinis; posuisti in capite ejus coronam de lapide pretioso.

5Vitam petiit a te, et tribuisti ei longitudinem dierum, in sæculum, et in sæculum sæculi.

6Magna est gloria ejus in salutari tuo; gloriam et magnum decorem impones super eum.

7Quoniam dabis eum in benedictionem in sæculum sæculi; lætificabis eum in gaudio cum vultu tuo.

8Quoniam rex sperat in Domino, et in misericordia Altissimi non commovebitur.

9Inveniatur manus tua omnibus inimicis tuis; dextera tua inveniat omnes qui te oderunt.

10Pones eos ut clibanum ignis in tempore vultus tui: Dominus in ira sua conturbabit eos, et devorabit eos ignis.

11Fructum eorum de terra perdes, et semen eorum a filiis hominum,

12quoniam declinaverunt in te mala; cogitaverunt consilia quæ non potuerunt stabilire.

13Quoniam pones eos dorsum; in reliquiis tuis præparabis vultum eorum.

14Exaltare, Domine, in virtute tua; cantabimus et psallemus virtutes tuas.]

1Unto the end. A psalm for David.

2In thy strength, O Lord, the king shall joy; and in thy salvation he shall rejoice exceedingly.

3Thou hast given him his heart’s desire: and hast not withholden from him the will of his lips.

4For thou hast prevented him with blessings of sweetness: thou hast set on his head a crown of precious stones.

5He asked life of thee: and thou hast given him length of days for ever and ever.

6His glory is great in thy salvation: glory and great beauty shalt thou lay upon him.

7For thou shalt give him to be a blessing for ever and ever: thou shalt make him joyful in gladness with thy countenance.

8For the king hopeth in the Lord: and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.

9Let thy hand be found by all thy enemies: let thy right hand find out all them that hate thee.

10Thou shalt make them as an oven of fire, in the time of thy anger: the Lord shall trouble them in his wrath, and fire shall devour them.

11Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth: and their seed from among the children of men.

12For they have intended evils against thee: they have devised counsels which they have not been able to establish.

13For thou shalt make them turn their back: in thy remnants thou shalt prepare their face.

14Be thou exalted, O Lord, in thy own strength: we will sing and praise thy power.