Psalmen 30:5-12

5 Psalmzingt den HEERE, gij Zijn gunstgenoten! en zegt lof ter gedachtenis Zijner heiligheid.

6 Want een ogenblik is er in Zijn toorn, maar een leven in Zijn goedgunstigheid; des avonds vernacht het geween, maar des morgens is er gejuich.

7 Ik zeide wel in mijn voorspoed: Ik zal niet wankelen in eeuwigheid.

8 Want, HEERE! Gij hadt mijn berg door Uw goedgunstigheid vastgezet; maar toen Gij Uw aangezicht verborgt, werd ik verschrikt.

9 Tot U, HEERE! riep ik, en ik smeekte tot den HEERE:

10 Wat gewin is er in mijn bloed, in mijn nederdalen tot de groeve? Zal U het stof loven? Zal het Uw waarheid verkondigen?

11 Hoor, HEERE! en wees mij genadig; HEERE! wees mij een Helper.

12 Gij hebt mij mijn weeklage veranderd in een rei; Gij hebt mijn zak ontbonden, en mij met blijdschap omgord; [ (Psalms 30:13) Opdat mijn eer U psalmzinge, en niet zwijge. HEERE, mijn God! in eeuwigheid zal ik U loven. ]

Psalmen 30:5-12 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 30

\\<>\\. 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 Eph 5:19. A psalm was sung upon musical instruments, a song with the voice; it may be this psalm was sung both ways: the occasion of it was the dedication of David's house: the Targum interprets it of the house of the sanctuary, the temple; and so most of the Jewish commentators {i}; which might be called his house, because it was his intention to build it; his heart was set upon it, he provided materials for it, and gave his son Solomon the form of it, and a charge to build it; and, as is thought, composed this psalm to be sung, and which was sung by the Levites at the dedication of it: others, as Aben Ezra, are of opinion it was his own dwelling house, made of cedar, which he dedicated according to the law of Moses, with sacrifices and offerings, prayer and thanksgiving, \2Sa 5:11 7:2 De 20:5\; so Apollinarius calls it a new house David built; but since there is nothing in the whole psalm that agrees with the dedication, either of the temple, or of David's own private house, it seems better, with other interpreters, to understand it of the purging of David's house from the wickedness and incest of his son Absalom, upon his return to it, when the rebellion raised by him was extinguished; which might be reckoned a new dedication of it; see 2Sa 20:3; and to a deliverance from such troubles this psalm well agrees. Theodoret interprets it of the restoration of the human nature by Christ, through his resurrection from the dead. {i} Jarchi, Kimchi, & Abdendana.