Psalms 30:2

_O LORD MY GOD, I CRIED UNTO THEE, AND THOU HAST HEALED ME._ O Lord. The invocation of 'Yahweh' in the opening of each of the three first verses marks their close mutual relation. THOU HAST HEALED ME - thou hast removed my spiritual malady (my pride, which brought on me chastisement), and the consequent plague which so reduced my people. Compare Psalms 30:10; 1 Chronicles 21:14; Isaiah 1:5; Isaiah 6:10; 2 Chronicles 36:16, margin....

Verse Psalms 30:2. _THOU HAST HEALED ME._] Thou hast removed the plague from my people by which they were perishing in _thousands_ before my eyes....

O LORD MY GOD, I CRIED UNTO THEE - In the time of trouble and danger. AND THOU HAST HEALED ME - Thou didst restore me to health. The language here evidently refers to the fact that he had been sick, and had then been restored to health....

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. In the first part, the deliverance is mentioned, and thanks given for it, in the briefest possible way (Psalms 30:1), after which the people are called upon to join in praising God, and reminded what cause they have for doing so (Psalms 30:4, Psalms 30:5). In the second part, the circumstances of the deliverance are set out at greater length. First of all, the sin is confessed, which had drawn down God's anger (Psalms 30:6

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 immediately, or by giving a blessing to means used; and the glory of such a mercy should be given to him: or else of soul diseases, which are natural and hereditary, epidemical, nauseous, mortal, and incurable, but by the grace of God and blood of Christ; and the healing: of them either respects the pardon of them at first conversion; for healing diseases, and forgiving iniquities, signify one and the same thing; or else fresh discoveries and applications of pardoning grace, after falls into sin, which are an healing backslidings, and restoring comforts; and this is God's work; none can heal b...

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 of dedication for the House. By David.» It was a song of faith, since David did not live to witness the dedication of the temple, for which he had planned in his heart, and for which he had laid by in store. Though he knew that he would not be permitted by God to build it, he took delight in writing a Psalm which might be sung at the opening of the temple. Thus it begins: Psalms 30:1. _I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me._ «I will exalt thee, for thou hast exalted me. I will lift up thy praise, because thou hast lifted up my spirits. I will bless thee, for thou hast blessed me,» Our song of praise should be the

Psalms 30 A Psalm of Praise _ 1. Praise for deliverance (Psalms 30:1)_ 2. Past experience (Psalms 30:6) Psalms 30:1. The inscription says that the Psalm was written by David as a song of dedication of the house. It probably means the house of the Lord mentioned in 1 Chronicles 22:1. The Psalm must be looked upon as expressing prophetically the praise of the nation for the deliverance and when that greater house of the Lord will be on the earth ...

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. 104). Rather it is the hymn of an individual, who (Psalms 30:1) thanks Yahweh for deliverance in sickness which threatened death. PSALMS 30:3_ B_. Read _mg._ PSALMS 30:6. He had made too sure of his prosperity, and was taught by pain his dependence on God. The Hebrew horror of death (Psalms 30:9) arose chiefly from the belief that in death all intercourse with God ceased. This differentiates the Hebrew fear of

Thanksgiving for deliverance from death in answer to prayer....

THOU HAST HEALED ME— The original verb רפא _rapa_ is used either for the healing of bodily disorders, Psalms 103:3 or to denote the happy alteration of any person's affairs, either in public or private life, by the removal of any kind of distress, personal or national. Psalms 107:20. Isaiah 19:22. So in the place before us, _Thou hast healed me,_ means, "Thou hast brought me out of my distresses; hast restored my health, and rendered me safe and prosperous." Under Saul he was frequently in the most imminent danger of his life, out of which God wonderfully brought him: this he strongly expresses by saying, _Thou hast brought up my soul from sheol:_...