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Psalm 30 is an Individual Psalm of Thanksgiving. This genre presupposes a past experience where the poet was in trouble, prayed about it, and received an answer in a dramatic way from God. Only a small number of such Psalms are in the Bible (18, 34, 40, 52, 66, 116, and 130). Considering that only … Continue reading “Psalm 30 Commentary by Wendell Frerichs”

From Mourning to Morning Psalm 30 may be the most beautiful lyric in the Psalter. The poetry here is balanced, emotional, picturesque, and expressive. The poem has some of the greatest lines in the whole Bible: God’s “anger is but for a moment; his favor is for a lifetime. / / Weeping may linger for … Continue reading “Psalm 30 Commentary by Rolf Jacobson”

Psalm 30 frames the struggles of the life of faith within a glorious edifice: the Jerusalem Temple, a powerful cultural icon that “narrates” the faith of the believing community, the enduring presence of God, and the inviolability of God’s promises to Israel. The psalm is ascribed to David, but it is also designated for the … Continue reading “Psalm 30 Commentary by Carolyn J. Sharp”

In his article, “Psalms in Narrative Performance,” Walter Brueggemann writes about making generic Psalms concrete: “To re-narratize the Psalms is to protest against vacuous generalization and to focus on concreteness wherein real people live real lives of agony and ecstasy.”1 Brueggemann unapologetically suggests we update the subscriptions of Psalms. Psalm 30 is more than “A … Continue reading “Psalm 30 Commentary by Shauna Hannan”

Psalm 30 is a song of thanksgiving. That label is appropriate for two reasons. First, and most generally, gratitude for God’s deliverance is the psalm’s dominant theme. In nearly every line the psalmist either expresses thanks and praise for God’s deliverance or describes the circumstances of that deliverance. Second, the language of the psalm is … Continue reading “Psalm 30 Commentary by Jerome Creach”

Psalm 30 presents the dramatic ups-and-downs of a life lived in relationship with God. A study in contrasts This short prayer of thanksgiving contains a surprisingly large number of antitheses: night and day (v. 5), down and up (vv. 1, 3, 9), weeping and joy (vv. 5, 11), anger and favor (v. 5), absence and … Continue reading “Psalm 30 Commentary by Joel LeMon”

“Weeping may linger for the night, but joy comes with the morning.” These are welcome words in the Easter season, and it is no wonder that Augustine described Psalm 30 as “a Psalm of the joy of the Resurrection, and the change, the renewing of the body to an immortal state, and not only of … Continue reading “Psalm 30 Commentary by Eric Mathis”

Because I am a Psalms scholar, I am always on the lookout for where and when the Psalms show up, whether it be in worship or in the public arena. While preparing to write this essay, I heard Psalm 30:5b quoted twice. First, on the morning after the 2016 Iowa Caucuses, one of the four … Continue reading “Psalm 30 Commentary by J. Clinton McCann”

There are a number of directions that the interpreter of psalm 29 could take. For example, it is generally a matter of consensus among scholars that this Psalm was originally a Canaanite text celebrating Ba’al or a similar storm god. At one point, it was then brought into Israel’s use by replacing Ba’al’s name with … Continue reading “Psalm 29 Commentary by Matthew Stith”

Psalm 29 is a call to worship, not only by the assembled congregation in the Jerusalem Temple, but also by the angels in God’s heavenly court. In all likelihood, the context of this powerful piece was someone experiencing the lightning, thunder, and wind of a storm coming in from the Mediterranean Sea. The Psalm found … Continue reading “Psalm 29 Commentary by Wendell Frerichs”