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Psalms 30:5

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30:5 For his anger lasts only a brief moment,

and his good favor restores one’s life. 1 

One may experience sorrow during the night,

but joy arrives in the morning. 2 

Psalms 40:3

Context

40:3 He gave me reason to sing a new song, 3 

praising our God. 4 

May many see what God has done,

so that they might swear allegiance to him and trust in the Lord! 5 

Psalms 65:4

Context

65:4 How blessed 6  is the one whom you choose,

and allow to live in your palace courts. 7 

May we be satisfied with the good things of your house –

your holy palace. 8 

Psalms 137:6

Context

137:6 May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth,

if I do not remember you,

and do not give Jerusalem priority

over whatever gives me the most joy. 9 

1 tn Heb “for [there is] a moment in his anger, [but] life in his favor.” Because of the parallelism with “moment,” some understand חַיִּים (khayyim) in a quantitative sense: “lifetime” (cf. NIV, NRSV). However, the immediate context, which emphasizes deliverance from death (see v. 3), suggests that חַיִּים has a qualitative sense: “physical life” or even “prosperous life” (cf. NEB “in his favour there is life”).

2 tn Heb “in the evening weeping comes to lodge, but at morning a shout of joy.” “Weeping” is personified here as a traveler who lodges with one temporarily.

3 sn A new song was appropriate because the Lord had intervened in the psalmist’s experience in a fresh and exciting way.

4 tn Heb “and he placed in my mouth a new song, praise to our God.”

5 tn Heb “may many see and fear and trust in the Lord.” The translation assumes that the initial prefixed verbal form is a jussive (“may many see”), rather than an imperfect (“many will see”). The following prefixed verbal forms with vav (ו) conjunctive are taken as indicating purpose or result (“so that they might swear allegiance…and trust”) after the introductory jussive.

6 tn The Hebrew noun is an abstract plural. The word often refers metonymically to the happiness that God-given security and prosperity produce (see Pss 1:1; 2:12; 34:9; 41:1; 84:12; 89:15; 106:3; 112:1; 127:5; 128:1; 144:15).

7 tn Heb “[whom] you bring near [so that] he might live [in] your courts.”

8 tn Or “temple.”

9 tn Heb “if I do not lift up Jerusalem over the top of my joy.”



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