Psaumes 147:6

Darby's French Translation

L'Éternel affermit les débonnaires; il renverse les méchants jusqu'en terre.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
L'Eternel maintient les débonnaires, [mais] il abaisse les méchants jusqu’en terre.

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
L'Éternel soutient les humbles, et il abaisse les méchants jusqu'à terre.

Louis Segond (1910)
L'Eternel soutient les malheureux, Il abaisse les méchants jusqu'à terre.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

lifteth up: Psalms 25:9, Psalms 37:11, Psalms 145:14, Psalms 146:8, Psalms 146:9, Psalms 149:4, 1 Samuel 2:8, Zephaniah 2:3, Matthew 5:5, James 4:10, 1 Peter 3:4, 1 Peter 5:6

he casteth: Psalms 55:23, Psalms 73:18, Psalms 73:19, Psalms 146:9, 2 Peter 2:4-9

Reciprocal: Numbers 12:3 - very Psalms 102:10 - thou hast Ezekiel 28:17 - I will cast

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Lord lifteth up the meek,.... The lowly and humble souls, such as are made so by the Spirit of God; he shows them their sinfulness, and want of righteousness; the insufficiency of their own, and need of Christ's; blowing a blast upon all their goodliness, so bringing down their natural pride and haughtiness, and causing them to submit to Christ, that he alone might be exalted; such as learn of him, who is meek and lowly, and become the followers of the humble Jesus; who being partakers of his grace, have low thoughts of themselves, as if the least of saints and chief of sinners; and higher thoughts of others; who ascribe all they have and are to the grace of God; and who make no boast of nor place any trust in anything they do; who quietly submit to every adversity; patiently bear all the injuries, affronts, and reproaches of men; and are silent under every afflictive dispensation of Providence: these humble ones the Lord exalts in due time; he lifts up their spirits, he cheers and refreshes their souls; raises them to a high estate of grace, sets them among princes, gives them honour here, and a crown and kingdom hereafter; these shall inherit the new earth, in which will dwell righteousness; see Matthew 5:5;

he casteth the wicked down to the ground; or "humbles them to the ground" p; he abases the proud and brings them into a low estate, sometimes in this world; however in the next he casts them down to hell, even into the lowest hell, which is the portion of all wicked men, of all proud and haughty sinners; see Isaiah 26:5; compare with these expressions Luke 1:51. Aben Ezra by the "meek" understands the outcasts of Israel, and by the "wicked" the kings of the Gentiles, subject to Israel.

p משפיל "humiliaus", V. L. Montanus; "humiliat", Pagninus, Cocceius, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Lord lifteth up the meek - The humble; the poor; the bowed down; the oppressed. See the notes at Psalms 146:8 : “The Lord raiseth them that are bowed down.”

He casteth the wicked down to the ground - See the notes at Psalms 146:9 : “The way of the wicked he turneth upside down.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 147:6. The Lord lifteth up the meek — The humbled, the afflicted.