INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 30 A PSALM [AND] SONG [AT] THE DEDICATION OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID. This is the first time that a psalm is called a song; some psalms are called by one name, some by another, and some by both, as here; and some are called hymns: to which distinction of them the apostle refers in... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL EXTOL THEE, O LORD,.... Or "lift thee up on high" k. The Lord is high in his name, he is the most High; and in his nature, there is none besides him, nor like unto him; and in place, he dwells in the high and holy place; he is above all, angels and men; he is above all gods; he is the King of... [ Continue Reading ]
O LORD MY GOD, I CRIED UNTO THEE,.... In the time of his distress and trouble; and whither should he go but unto his covenant God and Father? AND THOU HAST HEALED ME: either of some bodily disease that attended him; for the Lord is the physician of the body, as well as of the soul; and that either... [ Continue Reading ]
O LORD, THOU HAST BROUGHT UP MY SOUL FROM THE GRAVE,.... When his life being in danger, was near unto it, Job 33:22; otherwise the soul dies not, nor does it lie and sleep in the grave; or "thou hast brought up my soul from hell" m; that is, delivered him from those horrors of conscience and terrors... [ Continue Reading ]
SING UNTO THE LORD, O YE SAINTS OF HIS,.... Such to whom he has been gracious and merciful, and has blessed with pardoning grace, and justifying righteousness, adoption, and a right to eternal life; and who are holy godly persons; in whose hearts principles of grace and holiness are formed; and who... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HIS ANGER [ENDURETH BUT] A MOMENT,.... Anger is not properly in God, he being a simple, uncompounded, immovable, and unchangeable being; nor is it ever towards his people in reality, unless anger is distinguished from wrath, and is considered as consistent with his everlasting and invariable lov... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IN MY PROSPERITY,.... Either outward prosperity, when he was settled in his kingdom, and as acknowledged king by all the tribes of Israel, and had gotten the victory over all his enemies, and was at rest from them round about; or inward and spiritual prosperity, having a spiritual appetite for t... [ Continue Reading ]
LORD, BY THY FAVOUR THOU HAST MADE MY MOUNTAIN TO STAND STRONG,.... The psalmist found himself mistaken, and acknowledges it; that as it was not owing to his own merit that he enjoyed the prosperity that he did, so neither was the continuance of it owing to his goodness, power, and strength, but to... [ Continue Reading ]
I CRIED TO THEE, O LORD,.... In his trouble, when the Lord had hid his face from him, and he was sensible that he had departed from him: he was not stupid and unaffected with it; nor did he turn his back upon God, and seek to others; but he cried after a departing God, which showed love to him, and... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT PROFIT [IS THERE] IN MY BLOOD?.... Should that be shed, and he die by the hands of his enemies, through divine permission: death is not profitable to a man's self by way of merit; it does not atone for sin, satisfy justice, and merit heaven; even the death of martyrs, and of such who shed their... [ Continue Reading ]
HEAR, O LORD, AND HAVE MERCY UPON ME,.... By lifting up the light of his countenance again upon him; by manifesting and applying his pardoning grace to him, and by delivering him out of all his afflictions; LORD, BE THOU MY HELPER; in this time of trouble; for he knew that vain was the help of man;... [ Continue Reading ]
THOSE HAST TURNED FOR ME MY MOURNING INTO DANCING,.... This, with what follows, expresses the success he had in seeking the Lord by prayer and supplication; there was a sudden change of things, as it often is with the people of God; sometimes they are mourning by reason of sin, their own and others;... [ Continue Reading ]
TO THE END THAT [MY] GLORY MAY SING PRAISE TO THEE, AND NOT BE SILENT,.... Meaning either his soul, the more noble and glorious part of him; or the members of his body, his tongue, which is the glory of it, and with which he glorified God; see Psalms 16:9; compared with Acts 2:26, this was the end t... [ Continue Reading ]