Psalms 30 (WEB)

Chapter Text

30:1 I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

30:2 Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.

30:3 Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

30:4 Sing praise to Yahweh, you saints of his. Give thanks to his holy name.

30:5 For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

30:6 As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.”

30:7 You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

30:8 I cried to you, Yahweh. I made supplication to the Lord:

30:9 “What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

30:10 Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on me. Yahweh, be my helper.”

30:11 You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

30:12 To the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever!

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "mercy", "healed", "extol", "yahweh", "raised", "foes", "rejoice", and "over". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "mercy" and "healed", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The local WEB text gives this verse as the immediate unit, so "mercy" and "healed" carries the first interpretive weight. In Psalms context, the local focus is worship, trust, the LORD's kingship, and covenant mercy.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "mercy" and "healed" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.