Psalms 30:1
Unto the end. A Psalm of David according to an ecstasy.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.
In Context
2In you, Lord, I have hoped; let me never be confounded. In your justice, deliver me.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 20:5Likewise, the officers shall proclaim, throughout every company, in the hearing of the soldiers: ‘What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest perhaps he may die in the battle, and another man may dedicate it.
2 Samuel 6:20And David returned, so that he might bless his own house. And Michal, the daughter of Saul, going out to meet David, said: “How glorious was the king of Israel today, uncovering himself before the handmaids of his servants, and being unclothed, as if one of the performers were unclothed.”
2 Samuel 20:3And when the king had entered his house at Jerusalem, he took the ten women concubines, whom he had left behind to care for the house, and he put them into custody, allowing them provisions. But he did not enter to them. Instead, they were enclosed, even until the day of their deaths, living as widows.
1 Kings 8:63And Solomon slew sacrifices of peace offerings, which he immolated to the Lord: twenty-two thousand oxen, and twenty thousand one hundred sheep. And the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the temple of the Lord.
Psalms 13:4Will they never learn: all those who work iniquity, who devour my people like a meal of bread?
Psalms 27:6Blessed is the Lord, for he has heard the voice of my supplication.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 30:1
This is a psalm of thanksgiving for the great deliverances which God had wrought for David, penned upon occasion of the dedicating of his house of cedar, and sung in that pious solemnity, though there is not any thing in it that has particular reference to that occasion. Some collect from divers passages in the psalm itself that it was penned upon his recovery from a dangerous fit of sickness, which might happen to be about the time of the dedication of his house. I. He here praises God for the deliverances he had… Read the whole commentary →