Psa 30 | EE | STEP | This psalm of David is a song for blessing the house. LORD, I will praise you because you have lifted me up from Sheol. You have not let my enemies laugh at me.

Psalms 30

Bless this House

This psalm of David is a song for blessing the house.

1 LORD, I will praise you

because you have lifted me up from Sheol.

You have not let my enemies laugh at me.

2 LORD, my God, I prayed to you for help,

and you gave me health.

3 LORD, you brought my soul up from Sheol.

You gave me life,

so that I am not with those that go down into the Pit.

4 Sing to the LORD all you that believe in him.

praise his holy name.

5 His anger is for a moment,

but his grace will be for as long as you live.

You may cry all night,

but in the morning, you will sing for joy. ^{▼▼30:5 Verses 1-5: David was very ill. He thought that he was going to die. He prayed to God. God made him well again. David did not go to Sheol where he would not be able to praise God. So he asks everyone that believes in God to praise God with him. God was angry for a short time, but now he is not angry with David.}

6 I said that I was safe for ever

because of what I had done.

7 But LORD, it was your grace that made me safe

and protected my mountain.

When you hid your face (from me), I became very sad. ^{▼▼30:7 Verse 6-7: David thought that he had made himself safe. God used his illness to show David that this was not true. It was only God that made David safe. ‘The mountain’ is a strange word here. Perhaps it means the life that David built up; or it may mean the mountain in Jerusalem where David put the house of God. This was a tent which we call the Tabernacle.}

8 I prayed to you LORD

and asked you, LORD, for mercy.

9 What value is there in destroying me in the Pit?

Will my dead body praise you?

Will it say that you keep your promises?

10 LORD, listen to me and give me mercy.

LORD, be the person that gives me help. ^{▼▼30:10 Verses 8-10: David tells us what he said when he prayed to God. The Pit is a part of Sheol. The Jews thought that only the very bad people went there. They never came out.}

11 You have changed my crying into dancing.

You have taken away my sad clothes

and given me wonderful clothes.

12 So my heart will sing to you, nothing will stop it.

LORD, my God, I will always praise you. ^{▼▼30:12 Verses 11-12: David is now very happy. ‘Sad clothes’ in Hebrew is ‘sackcloth.’ People used sackcloth to make bags for carrying things in. It did not make good clothes. The Jews wore sackcloth when they were very, very sad. ‘My heart will sing’ means that everything in me wants to praise God.}