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Psalms 30
A psalm of deliverance attributed to the dedication of the house — the speaker has been pulled back from the pit, healed, kept alive, and now calls the saints to corporate praise of Jehovah. The arc is the covenant pattern in miniature: prosperity, then the hiding of the divine face, then mourning, then restoration. The hinge verse is verse 5 — anger a moment, favor life, weeping a night, joy in the morning — which is not comfort-poetry but a statement about the Moedim rhythm: darkness precedes appointed dawn. Sackcloth exchanged for gladness echoes the servant's anointing, mourning turned to dancing by Jehovah's own hand.
1
I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.
2
O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
3
O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
4
Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
5
For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
6
And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
7
LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.
8
I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.
9
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
10
Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.
11
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
12
To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.
