George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Psalms 30:3
A God. Hebrew, "a rock of strength." Septuagint, "a God who holdeth his shield over me," Greek: uperaspisten. (Haydock) --- Refuge. Hebrew, "fortress." (Calmet)
A God. Hebrew, "a rock of strength." Septuagint, "a God who holdeth his shield over me," Greek: uperaspisten. (Haydock) --- Refuge. Hebrew, "fortress." (Calmet)
Verse Psalms 30:3. _THOU HAST BROUGHT UP MY SOUL FROM THE GRAVE_] I and my people were both about to be cut off; but thou hast spared us in mercy, and given us a most glorious respite....
O, LORD, THOU HAST BROUGHT UP MY SOUL FROM THE GRAVE - My life; me. The meaning is, that he had been in imminent danger of death, and had been brought from the borders of the grave. The word here rend...
Psalms 30 A Psalm of Praise _ 1. Praise for deliverance (Psalms 30:1)_ 2. Past experience (Psalms 30:6) Psalms 30:1. The inscr
XXX. TRUST IN GOD, NOT IN SELF. The Ps. was not intended originally, as the title suggests, for the purification and dedication of the Temple in 165 B.C. after its pollution by Antiochus Epiphanes (p....
SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. THE GRAVE. Hebrew Sheol. See App-35. THAT. SHOULD NOT GO DOWN. So in some codices and one early printed edition; but other codices read "from among" [those who were...
So desperate was his sickness that his recovery was as life from the dead, a veritable resurrection from the grave. _from the grave_ R.V. from Sheol. See note on Psalms 6:5. Cp. 1 Samuel 2:6. _thou h...
Thanksgiving for deliverance from death in answer to prayer....
PSALMS 30 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Song of Joy on Recovery from Sickness. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 30:1-3, Declaration of Praise and its Occasion. Stanza II., Psalms 30:4-5, Call on Levites to Praise,...
_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._ Thou hast brought up ... - Hebrew, Sheol; Greek, Hades, the unseen world. David,...
Title.—(RV) 'A Psalm; a Song at the Dedication of the House; _a Psalm_ of David.' There is no obvious connexion between the contents of this Ps. and its title. It is a thanksgiving for recovery from a...
THE GRAVE] RV 'Sheol,' which, like the pit, means the state of the dead....
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
GRAVE. — _Sheôl_ (See Note to Psalms 6:5.) THAT I SHOULD NOT GO DOWN TO THE PIT. — This follows a reading which is considered by modern scholars ungrammatical. The ordinary reading, rightly kept by th...
_[Psalms 30:4]_ יְֽהוָ֗ה הֶֽעֱלִ֣יתָ מִן ־שְׁאֹ֣ול נַפְשִׁ֑י...
Psalms 30:1 THE title of this psalm is apparently a composite, the usual "Psalm of David" having been enlarged by the awkward insertion of "A Song at the Dedication of the House," which probably indic...
“JOY COMETH IN THE MORNING” Psalms 30:1 This psalm dates from 2 Samuel 5:11. What a contrast between Adullam's cave and the house of cedar! When God has lifted us up in mercy, we should lift Him up...
This is a song of praise for deliverance (1-5) and a meditation on the deliverance and its lessons (6-12), with a final note of praise (12). The phrases descriptive of the trouble are such as to leave...
O LORD, thou hast brought up my (d) soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. (d) Meaning, that he escaped death most narrowly....
How beautiful are these expressions, if applied to the Lord Jesus Christ? Here the subject was altogether real. David, and all other men, delivered from the snare of the enemy, may be said to be kept,...
In Psalms 30 we have the contrast between trust in prosperity even in that given of God and in God Himself. He has come in and lifted up the poor, and not left him to his foes. His favor is life. If a...
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...
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. Ver. 3. _O Lord, thou hast brought up, &c._] Here he saith the same again as before...
_Thou hast healed me_ That is, delivered me from the fears and troubles of my mind, (which are often compared to diseases,) and from very dangerous distempers of my body. For the original word is used...
A PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING FOR DELIVERANCE FROM DEATH. A psalm and song, literally, "a psalm song," a composition to be sung with musical accompaniment, at the dedication of the house of David, of his...
O Lord, Thou hast brought up my soul from the grave, restoring him when his soul had almost reached the realms of the dead; THOU HAST KEPT ME ALIVE THAT I SHOULD NOT GO DOWN TO THE PIT, quickening him...
THOU HAST BROUGHT UP MY SOUL FROM THE GRAVE; my deliverance is a kind of resurrection from the grave, upon the very brink whereof I was. THOU HAST KEPT ME ALIVE: this he adds to explain the former phr...
Psalms 30:3 LORD H3068 brought H5927 (H8689) soul H5315 grave H7585 alive H2421 (H8765) down H3381 ...
AN EXPRESSION OF GRATITUDE TO YHWH FOR HIS DELIVERANCE FROM DEATH (PSALMS 30:1). Psalms 30:1 I will exalt you, O YHWH, for you have raised me up, And have not made my foes to rejoice over me. O YH...
GRAVE Hebrew, "Sheol," (_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5). _...
May the Holy Spirit, who inspired the writer of this Psalm, now lead us into its inner meaning! It is entitled «A Psalm and Song at the dedication of the house of David; «or, rather, «A Psalm; a song...
CONTENTS: Thanksgiving for answer to prayer. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: We should hem all our blessings with praise lest they unravel. Let us never forget to pray, nor ever doubt the succes...
The title is, _a psalm and song._ Chrysostom, in his prologue, understands it of a song set to the organ, or a concert of music, and sung when David dedicated his palace in the city of Zion. Here his...
_I will extol Thee, O Lord; for Thou hast lifted me up._ A PSALM OF DELIVERANCE The title of this psalm is apparently a composite, the usual “Psalm of David” having been enlarged by the awkward inser...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 30:1. According to the title, David composed Psalms 30:1 for the temple’s dedication (which took place after David died,...
INTRODUCTION “This psalm was composed after recovery from a sickness which had very nearly proved fatal. The singer begins with an inscription of praise to God for His great goodness, and calls upon a...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm is one of thanksgiving from first to last, and commemorates a deliverance from a great danger. It is divided into two unequal portions—one of five and the ether of seven verses....
I will extol thee, O LORD; for you have lifted me up, and you've not made my foes to rejoice over me. O LORD my God, I cried unto you, and you healed me. O LORD, you have brought up my soul from the g...
Isaiah 38:17; Isaiah 38:18; Job 33:19; Job 33:28; Jonah 2:4;...