Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing, the reference being to the exultant joy of the lute-playing accompanying such leaping for happiness as done by the women celebrating a victory, Exodus 15:20; Judges 11:34; 1 Samuel 18:6; Thou hast put off my sackcloth, the garment of sorrow and penitence, and girded me with gladness, signifying both strength and rejoicing;
Verse Psalms 30:11. _THOU HAST TURNED - MY MOURNING INTO DANCING_] Rather _into_ _piping_. I have not prayed in vain. Though I deserved to be cut off from the land of the living, yet thou hast spared...
THOU HAST TURNED FOR ME - In my behalf. That is, God had heard his prayer; he had brought his troubles to an end; he had caused his sorrows to be succeeded by correspondent joy. MY MOURNING INTO DANCI...
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....
TURNED: denoting the act. See "girded", below. PUT OFF. torn open, or off. SACKCLOTH. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for the sadness of which it was the sign. GIRDED: denot...
Better, Thou didst turn … didst loose … and gird. He looks back to the moment when his prayer was answered. _mourning … dancing_ The gestures of sorrow and joy are contrasted, for mourning means liter...
Prayer answered: life prolonged, and its purpose....
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,...
_THOU HAST TURNED FOR ME MY MOURNING INTO DANCING: THOU HAST PUT OFF MY SACKCLOTH, AND GIRDED ME WITH GLADNESS;_ Thou hast turned ... - (cf. Psalms 30:5.) SACKCLOTH - the robe symbolical of humble p...
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...
SACKCLOTH] the garb of sadness....
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...
THOU HAST TURNED FOR ME. — This verse gives the answer to the prayer. _Mourning_ is literally _beating the breast,_ and therefore _dancing_ forms a proper parallelism; or else, according to one deriva...
_[Psalms 30:12]_ הָפַ֣כְתָּ מִסְפְּדִי֮ לְ מָחֹ֪ול לִ֥י...
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...
Poverty. Septuagint have read ani instead of haoni, "my iniquity," which seems less accurate, as David had not offended Saul. Symmachus has "malice," (Calmet) or "ill-treatment," Greek: kakosin. (Hayd...
Jesus's strong crying and tears were so important a part in his mission, that the Holy Ghost seems to be directing the church to keep them continually in view. And he generally blends with them the tr...
11._Thou hast turned my mourning into dancing. _David concludes the psalm as he had begun it, with thanksgiving. He affirms that it was by the help and blessing of God that he had escaped safe; and he...
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...
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...
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; Ver. 11. _Thou hast turned for me my mourning, &c._] _Sustulisti luctum, et laetitiam at...
_Thou hast turned for me_, &c. Having related his prayer, he now declares the gracious answer which God gave him. _Thou hast put off my sackcloth_ Hast given me occasion to put it off, alluding to the...
6-12 When things are well with us, we are very apt to think that they will always be so. When we see our mistake, it becomes us to think with shame upon our carnal security as our folly. If God hide...
Having related his prayer, he now declares the gracious answer which God gave him. PUT OFF MY SACKCLOTH, i.e. given me occasion to put off that sackcloth, which they used to wear in times of mourning....
Psalms 30:11 turned H2015 (H8804) mourning H4553 dancing H4234 off H6605 (H8765) sackcloth H8242 clothed H247 ...
HIS FINAL PRAISE AND THANKSGIVING BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN DELIVERED (PSALMS 30:11). Psalms 30:11 ‘You have turned for me my mourning into dancing, You have loosed my sackcloth, and girded me with gladn...
Psalms 30:11 I. The text describes certain changes in the lives and experience of godly men. Sackcloth was the attire of the leper, the ascetic, the penitent, and the mourner, sometimes, too, of the p...
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...
_In my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved._ THE CONDITIONS AND ACTS OF LIFE, THE SPRINGS OF SOLEMN ISSUES These verses may be taken as indicating the tendencies of certain conditions and acti...
_Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing._ EASTER JOY Here is described a change, complete, and more or less sudden, from sadness to joy. David has escaped a danger which had brought him ver...
_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,...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 30:11 MY GLORY is a poetical term in Psalms 1:1 for one’s whole being (see...
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...
2 Chronicles 20:12; 2 Chronicles 20:27; 2 Chronicles 20:28; 2 Chronicles 20:3;...
Sackcloth — Given me occasion to put off that sackcloth, which they used to wear in times of mourning, Esther 4:1; Psalms 35:13; Isaiah 32:11; Joel 1:13. Girde