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英文原文
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 wrought for him, Ps 30:1-3. II. He calls upon others to praise him too, and encourages them to trust in him, Ps 30:4,5. III. He blames himself for his former security, Ps 30:6,7. IV. He recollects the prayers and complaints he had made in his distress, Ps 30:8-10. With them he stirs up himself to be very thankful to God for the present comfortable change, Ps 30:11,12. In singing this psalm we ought to remember with thankfulness any like deliverances wrought for us, for which we must stir up our selves to praise him and by which we must be engaged to depend upon him.
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Thanksgiving and Praise
感恩與頌讚
大衛在獻殿的時候，作這詩歌。
¹ 耶和華啊，我要尊崇你，因為你曾提拔我，不叫仇敵向我誇耀。 ² 耶和華——我的神啊，我曾呼求你，你醫治了我。 ³ 耶和華啊，你曾把我的靈魂從陰間救上來，使我存活，不至於下坑。 ⁴ 耶和華的聖民哪，你們要歌頌他，讚美他可記念的聖名。 ⁵ 因為，他的怒氣不過是轉眼之間；他的恩典乃是一生之久。一宿雖然有哭泣，早晨便必歡呼。
敬虔的猶太人在建造新房屋之時將其獻給神，這是他們可嘉的實踐——雖未明文規定，卻被允許和悅納（申 20:5）。大衛在自己的房屋建成、並在其中居住之時（撒下 5:11）也是如此行；因為王宮與普通房屋一樣，同樣需要神的保護，也同樣有義務服事他。請注意：我們所居住的房屋，在我們首次遷入之時，當獻給神，作為小小的聖所。我們當莊嚴地將自己、我們的家屬、以及我們一切家務，交託給神的引導和看顧；當禱告求他的同在和賜福；當將我們自己和一切屬我們的奉獻歸給他的榮耀；並當決心*「將不義從我們帳棚中遠遠除去」，並決心「我們和我們的家必事奉耶和華」*——無論在家庭敬拜的責任上，或在福音順服的一切事例上。有人推測這詩是在大衛被押沙龍逐出王宮、押沙龍以亂倫玷污了那宮之後，重新奉獻大衛宮殿之時所唱的，是為那次危險叛亂被鎮壓而獻的感恩。在這些經文中，
一、大衛親自為神為他所行的偉大拯救感謝神（詩 30:1）：「耶和華啊，我要尊崇你！」我要高舉你的名，要如同高舉升上的一位那樣讚美你，我要盡我所能促進你國度在人中的利益。「我要尊崇你，因為你曾提拔我」——不僅把我從我所沉沒的坑中提拔上來，更把我提拔到以色列的寶座上。他*「從灰塵裏抬舉貧寒人」。想到神藉他的護理和他的恩典為高舉我們所作的大事，我們便因感恩有義務盡我們所能高舉他的名，即使我們所能作的也不過是微小的。三件事使大衛的拯救更顯偉大：1. 這是仇敵的挫敗。他們不容他勝過大衛而誇耀——他們若能如此（雖然這是野蠻的事），他們原是會作的，假如大衛死於這場疾病或喪命於這次患難中（參詩 41:11）。2. 這是對他禱告的應允（詩 30:2）：「我曾呼求你。」我們一切表達對自己患難之感覺的話，都當指向神，每一聲呼喊都是向他呼求；如此放任我們的憂傷，必減輕受壓之心的重擔。「我曾呼求你，你」不僅聽見了我，更「醫治了我」——醫治了患病的身體，醫治了受擾困不安的心靈，醫治了混亂分散的國事。這正是神所誇口的：「我耶和華是醫治你的」（出 15:26），我們當將榮耀歸給他。3. 這是他性命的保全；因為他已被帶到最後的關頭——正墜入墳墓、「準備下坑」*——卻被拯救、得存活（詩 30:3）。我們的危險越是迫切，我們的拯救就越顯卓越，對我們自己便越覺安慰，也越顯明神大能和良善的明證。從死裏得回的性命，當用以尊崇那賜我們生命之神。
二、他呼召別人與他一同讚美，不僅是為神賜給他個人的特別恩惠，更是為神向一切聖徒所顯善意的一般憑據（詩 30:4）：「耶和華的聖民哪，你們要歌頌他！」凡真是聖徒的，他都承認為屬他的。這世上這樣的人有余民，並且指望他們向他歌唱；因為他們受造並成聖、被造並被作成聖徒，為要使他們「得名聲、得讚美」。在天上他的聖徒向他歌唱；地上的為何不當照他們所能，與他們一同從事同樣的事呢？1. 他們信他為一位毫無瑕疵、純潔的神；所以讓他們向他歌唱；「你們要讚美他可記念的聖名」——當讚美他的聖名，因為聖潔是他世世代代的記念。神是聖潔的神；他的聖潔就是他的榮耀；這是聖天使在他們讚美中所最堅持的屬性（賽 6:3；啟 4:8）。我們當多多題說和記念神的聖潔。神的聖潔對聖徒乃是喜樂的緣由；因為他們便盼望他使他們成聖、更加成聖。神一切的完全中，沒有一樣比他的聖潔對惡人更可怕、對敬虔人更安慰。我們若能在記念它之時誠心歡喜、獻上感謝，這便是一個好兆頭，表明我們在某種程度上與他的聖潔有分。2. 他們經歷他為一位有恩典、有憐憫的神；所以讓他們向他歌唱。1. 我們發現他的皺眉很短暫。雖然我們本該受永遠的忿怒，他本可向我們發怒直到將我們滅盡、永不和好，但*「他的怒氣不過是轉眼之間」（詩 30:5）。我們冒犯他時，他會發怒；但他正如不輕易發怒、不輕易被激怒一般，當他發怒之時，因著我們的悔改和自卑，他的怒氣便很快轉消，他情願與我們和好。他若向他自己的兒女掩麵，暫停那慣常的恩寵憑據，那不過是「暫時的怒氣」、「頃刻之間」；他卻要以永遠的慈愛收回他們（賽 54:7-8）。「一宿雖然有哭泣」——即使是令人厭倦的黑夜——然而正如黑夜的黑暗之後必有早晨的光明歸回一般，照樣喜樂和安慰也必在短時間內、在當定的時候，歸向神的百姓；因為恩典之約與白晝之約一樣堅定。這話曾屢次照字麵應驗在我們身上。一宿雖然有哭泣，但憂愁很快過去，令人痛苦的事也消失了。請注意：神的怒氣持續多久，聖徒的哭泣也持續多久；但那若不過是片刻，患難也不過是片刻；當神臉上的光恢復之時，患難便容易被算為至暫至輕的了。2. 我們發現他的笑顏極其甘甜；「他的恩典乃是一生之久」*——意即一切美善。他的恩寵向受苦之靈歸回，如同死裏復活一般；沒有甚麼能比這更甦醒人心。我們的幸福係於神的恩寵；我們若得著它，便足夠了——無論別的缺了甚麼。那是靈魂的生命，是屬靈的生命，是永生的憑據。
英文原文
Thanksgiving and Praise
A psalm and song at the dedication of the house of David.
¹ I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.
² O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
³ O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
⁴ Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
⁵ For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
It was the laudable practice of the pious Jews, and, though not expressly appointed, yet allowed and accepted, when they had built a new house, to dedicate it to God, De 20:5. David did so when his house was built, and he took possession of it (2Sa 5:11); for royal palaces do as much need God's protection, and are as much bound to be at his service, as ordinary houses. Note, The houses we dwell in should, at our first entrance upon them, be dedicated to God, as little sanctuaries. We must solemnly commit ourselves, our families, and all our family affairs, to God's guidance and care, must pray for his presence and blessing, must devote ourselves and all ours to his glory, and must resolve both that we put away iniquity far from our tabernacles and that we and our houses will serve the Lord both in the duties of family worship and in all instances of gospel obedience. Some conjecture that this psalm was sung at the re-dedication of David's house, after he had been driven out of it by Absalom, who had defiled it with his incest, and that it is a thanksgiving for the crushing of that dangerous rebellion. In these verses,
I. David does himself give God thanks for the great deliverances he had wrought for him (Ps 30:1): "I will extol thee, O Lord! I will exalt thy name, will praise thee as one high and lifted up, I will do what I can to advance the interest of thy kingdom among men. I will extol thee, for thou hast lifted me up, not only up out of the pit in which I was sinking, but up to the throne of Israel." He raiseth up the poor out of the dust. In consideration of the great things God has done to exalt us, both by his providence and by his grace, we are bound, in gratitude, to do all we can to extol his name, though the most we can do is but little. Three thing magnify David's deliverance:—1. That it was the defeat of his enemies. They were not suffered to triumph over him, as they would have done (though it is a barbarous thing) if he had died of this sickness or perished in this distress: see Ps 41:11. 2. That it was an answer to his prayers (Ps 30:2): I cried unto thee. All the expressions of the sense we have of our troubles should be directed to God, and every cry be a cry to him; and giving way, in this manner, to our grief, will ease a burdened spirit. "I cried to thee, and thou hast not only heard me, but healed me, healed the distempered body, healed the disturbed and disquieted mind, healed the disordered distracted affairs of the kingdom." This is what God glories in, I am the Lord that healeth thee (Ex 15:26), and we must give him the glory of it. 3. That it was the saving of his life; for he was brought to the last extremity, dropping into the grave, and ready to go down into the pit, and yet rescued and kept alive, Ps 30:3. The more imminent our dangers have been, the more eminent our deliverances have been, the more comfortable are they to ourselves and the more illustrious proofs of the power and goodness of God. A life from the dead ought to be spent in extolling the God of our life.
II. He calls upon others to join with him in praise, not only for the particular favours God has bestowed upon him, but for the general tokens of his good-will to all his saints (Ps 30:4): Sing unto the Lord, O you saints of his! All that are truly saints he owns for his. There is a remnant of such in this world, and from them it is expected that they sing unto him; for they are created and sanctified, made and made saints, that they may be to him for a name and a praise. His saints in heaven sing to him; why should not those on earth be doing the same work, as well as they can, in concert with them? 1. They believe him to be a God of unspotted purity; and therefore let them sing to him; "Let them give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness; let them praise his holy name, for holiness is his memorial throughout all generations." God is a holy God; his holiness is his glory; that is the attribute which the holy angels, in their praises, fasten most upon, Isa 6:3, Re 4:8. We ought to be much in the mention and remembrance of God's holiness. It is a matter of joy to the saints that God is a holy God; for then they hope he will make them holy, more holy. None of all God's perfections carries in it more terror to the wicked, nor more comfort to the godly, than his holiness. It is a good sign that we are in some measure partakers of his holiness if we can heartily rejoice and give thanks at the remembrance of it. 2. They have experienced him to be a God gracious and merciful; and therefore let them sing to him. (1.) We have found his frowns very short. Though we have deserved that they should be everlasting, and that he should be angry with us till he had consumed us, and should never be reconciled, yet his anger endureth but for a moment, Ps 30:5. When we offend him he is angry; but, as he is slow to anger and not soon provoked, so when he is angry, upon our repentance and humiliation his anger is soon turned away and he is willing to be at peace with us. If he hide his face from his own children, and suspend the wonted tokens of his favour, it is but in a little wrath, and for a small moment; but he will gather them with everlasting kindness, Isa 54:7,8. If weeping endureth for a night, and it be a wearisome night, yet as sure as the light of the morning returns after the darkness of the night, so sure will joy and comfort return in a short time, in due time, to the people of God; for the covenant of grace is as firm as the covenant of the day. This word has often been fulfilled to us in the letter. Weeping has endured for a night, but the grief has been soon over and the grievance gone. Observe, As long as God's anger continues so long the saints' weeping continues; but, if that be but for a moment, the affliction is but for a moment, and when the light of God's countenance is restored the affliction is easily pronounced light and momentary. (2.) We have found his smiles very sweet; In his favour is life, that is, all good. The return of his favour to an afflicted soul is as life from the dead; nothing can be more reviving. Our happiness is bound up in God's favour; if we have that, we have enough, whatever else we want. It is the life of the soul, it is spiritual life, the earnest of life eternal.
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Prayer and Praise
禱告與讚美
⁶ 至於我，我在平順的日子裏曾說：我永不被搖動。 ⁷ 耶和華啊，你曾因你的恩惠使我堅立如山；你掩了面，我就驚惶。 ⁸ 耶和華啊，我曾向你呼求；向耶和華懇求。 ⁹ 我流血死亡，下到坑中，有甚麼益處呢？塵土豈能讚美你？豈能宣揚你的誠實？ ¹⁰ 耶和華啊，求你聽允，憐恤我；耶和華啊，求你作我的幫助。 ¹¹ 你已將我的哀哭變為跳舞；你已脫去我的麻衣，以喜樂給我束腰； ¹² 好叫我的榮耀向你歌頌，並不緘默。耶和華我的神啊，我要永遠稱謝你。
我們在這些經文裏看見大衛先後所處三種不同光景的記載，以及他在每一種光景之中向著神的心意如何——他所說所行，以及他的心如何受感動。在頭一種光景裏，我們可看見我們太容易成為怎樣的人；在後兩種光景裏，我們可看見我們當成為怎樣的人。
I. 他長久享受興旺，便對其持久產生了安全感、並過度自信（詩30:6-7）：「至於我，我在平順的日子裏——當我身體健康、神又使我脫離一切仇敵得享安息之時——我曾說：我永不被搖動；我既未想到自己身體會患病，也未想到自己的國位會被擾亂，對任何方面的危險都毫無所懼。」他既在對付那些反對他的人時取得了如此徹底的勝利，在百姓心中又有如此穩固的威望，加上心境的堅定與體魄的強健，便以為自己的興旺如山一般穩固；然而他把這歸之於神的良善，而非自己的智慧或勇毅。耶和華啊，你曾因你的恩惠使我堅立如山（詩30:7）。他並不像屬世之人那樣把它看作自己的天堂（屬世之人以興旺為自己的福樂），只把它看作自己的山；它仍是屬地的，不過比平常略高一點罷了。他以為這山必因神的恩惠而存到永遠，或許以為自己早年既有這樣多患難，便已經受足了自己當受的分，晚年必不再有了；又或者以為神既給了他這許多蒙恩的記號，便決不會再向他皺眉。請注意， 1. 當我們境遇亨通之時，我們很容易夢想這情形將永遠如此，絕不更改。*明日必如今日一樣。*我們似乎以為天氣一旦晴朗，便要永遠晴朗；然而再沒有比它必將改變更為確定的事了。 2. 當我們發現自己在期望上受了欺哄時，便當帶著羞愧反省自己的安全感——反省自己的愚昧，正如大衛在此所行，好叫我們下次更有智慧，並在我們的興旺中喜樂如同不喜樂一般，因為這興旺的樣式終要過去。
II. 他忽然落在患難之中，那時他便向神禱告，並為解救和救援懇切呼求。
1. 他的山被搖動，他也隨之搖動；當他最感安全之時，卻證明他最不安全：「你掩了面，我就驚惶——無論在心志、身體或產業上。」在他景況的每一個變遷中，他總是把目光注視神；正如他把興旺歸之於神的喜悅，照樣他在逆境中也察覺神掩面不看他是其原因。神若掩面，敬虔的人必然驚惶，即使沒有別的災禍臨到；太陽西沉之時黑夜必然來到，月亮和一切星辰都不能造成白晝。
2. 當他的山被搖動之時，他舉目仰望高過諸山的那位。禱告是每一樣創傷的良藥；他便照此取用。*有人受苦嗎？有人遭難嗎？讓他禱告。*雖然神向他掩面，他仍然禱告。神若在智慧與公義中轉離我們，我們若轉離他，便是我們所能想像最大的愚昧與不義了。不；讓我們學會在黑暗中禱告（詩30:8）：*耶和華啊，我曾向你呼求！*看來神的隱退反而使他的禱告更加懇切。我們在此被告知（看來他对此有所記錄），
（1）他所懇求的是甚麼（詩30:9）。 [1] 求神不能從他的死亡中有所獲益：我流血死亡，下到坑中，有甚麼益處呢？這暗示他情願捨命，只要能藉此為神或為國家盡真實的服事（腓2:17）；卻看不出自己病死榻上能成就甚麼善事，不像他若戰死沙場那樣可能成就的。「主啊，」他說，「你豈要為無價出賣自己百姓中的一個，也不從其價值上增添你的財富嗎？」（詩44:12）。不，更進者： [2] 在他的尊榮上，神似乎要因他的死亡而有所虧損：*塵土豈能讚美你？*那歸回神的成聖之靈要讚美他，要永遠讚美他；但那歸回塵土的塵土卻不能讚美他，也不能宣揚他的誠實。神殿中的事奉不能由塵土來獻上；它不能讚美他；在墳墓裏沒有那樣的謀略與作為，因為那是沉默之地。神約中的應許也不能向塵土成全。「主啊，」大衛說，「我若現在死了，那賜給我的應許將要如何呢？誰要宣揚那應許的真實呢？」禱告中最好的憑藉，就是那些從神的尊榮而來的憑藉；當我們以此為念而求存活——好叫我們活著讚美他——那時我們便是求對了。
（2）他所求的是甚麼（詩30:10）。他求憐憫以赦免（求你憐恤我），又求恩典在需要時幫助——*耶和華啊，求你作我的幫助。*在這兩件事上，我們也可以坦然來到施恩座前（來4:16）。
III. 到了時候，神救他脫離患難，恢復了他先前的興旺。他的禱告蒙了應允，他的哀哭化為跳舞（詩30:11）。神的怒氣不過片刻，大衛的哭泣也不過一夜。他因謙卑順服神聖護理所穿的麻衣被解開了；他的憂愁得著平衡；他的恐懼被平息；他的安慰歸回；他以喜樂束腰：喜樂成了他的裝飾，成了他的力量，並似乎緊貼著他，如同帶子緊貼人的腰間。大衛從興旺的高峰突然墜入患難——並且是在他最不期待的時候——這教導我們當喜樂如同不喜樂一般，因為我們不知道患難有多近；照樣他突然回到興旺的景況，也教導我們當哭泣如同不哭泣一般，因為我們不知道風暴何時要化為平靜、可畏的狂飆何時要化為順風。但在他事務面貌這樣美滿的轉變中，他的心境如何呢？他如今怎麼說呢？他告訴我們（詩30:12）： 1. 他的怨嘆化為了讚美。他看神以喜樂給他束腰，為的是要他作以色列的美歌者（撒下23:1），要他的榮耀歌頌神——就是他的舌頭（因我們的舌頭就是我們的榮耀，再沒有比它用來讚美神之時更顯為榮耀的了），或作他的靈魂（因那是我們超越畜類的榮耀），這靈魂必須用來稱頌耶和華，我們也當用它向他唱詩歌頌。那些蒙保守不在坑中緘默的人，在活人之地也不可緘默，卻要火熱地、恆切地、公開地讚美神。 2. 這些讚美將要存到永遠：*我要永遠稱謝你。*這表明他有一個蒙恩的決心，要堅忍到底讚美神；又表明他有一個蒙恩的盼望，相信自己必永遠不缺讚美的新題材，並且不久就要到那讚美為永遠之工的地方。*住在神殿中的便為有福；他們仍要讚美他。*如此我們便當學會適應神關乎我們的各樣護理——或缺乏、或豐盛；當唱憐憫與審判，並為兩者向神歌唱。
英文原文
Prayer and Praise
⁶ And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
⁷ LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.
⁸ I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.
⁹ What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
¹⁰ Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.
¹¹ Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
¹² To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.
We have, in these verses, an account of three several states that David was in successively, and of the workings of his heart towards God in each of those states—what he said and did, and how his heart stood affected; in the first of these we may see what we are too apt to be, and in the other two what we should be.
I. He had long enjoyed prosperity, and then he grew secure and over-confident of the continuance of it (Ps 30:6,7): "In my prosperity, when I was in health of body and God had given me rest from all my enemies, I said I shall never be moved; I never thought either of having my body distempered or my government disturbed, not had any apprehensions of danger upon any account." Such complete victories had he obtained over those that opposed him, and such a confirmed interest had he in the hearts of his people, such a firmness of mind and such a strong constitution of body, that he thought his prosperity fixed like a mountain; yet this he ascribes, not to his own wisdom or fortitude, but to the divine goodness. Thou, through thy favour, hast made my mountain to stand strong, Ps 30:7. He does not look upon it as his heaven (as worldly people do, who make their prosperity their felicity), only his mountain; it is earth still, only raised a little higher than the common level. This he thought, by the favour of God, would be perpetuated to him, imagining perhaps that, having had so many troubles in the beginning of his days, he had had his whole share and should have none in his latter end, or that God, who had given him such tokens of his favour, would never frown upon him. Note, 1. We are very apt to dream, when things are well with us, that they will always be so, and never otherwise. To-morrow shall be as this day. As if we should think, when the weather is once fair, that it will be ever fair; whereas nothing is more certain than that it will change. 2. When we see ourselves deceived in our expectations, it becomes us to reflect, with shame, upon our security, as our folly, as David does here, that we may be wiser another time and may rejoice in our prosperity as though we rejoiced not, because the fashion of it passes away.
II. On a sudden he fell into trouble, and then he prayed to God, and pleaded earnestly for relief and succour.
1. His mountain was shaken and he with it; it proved, when he grew secure, that he was least safe: "Thou didst hide thy face and I was troubled, in mind, body, or estate." In every change of his condition he still kept his eye upon God, and, as he ascribed his prosperity to God's favour, so in his adversity he observed the hiding of God's face, to be the cause of it. If God hide his face, a good man is certainly troubled, though no other calamity befal him; when the sun sets night certainly follows, and the moon and all the stars cannot make day.
2. When his mountain was shaken he lifted up his eyes above the hills. Prayer is a salve for every sore; he made use of it accordingly. Is any afflicted? Is any troubled? Let him pray. Though God hid his face from him, yet he prayed. If God, in wisdom and justice, turn from us, yet it will be in us the greatest folly and injustice imaginable if we turn from him. No; let us learn to pray in the dark (Ps 30:8): I cried to thee, O Lord! It seems God's withdrawings made his prayers the more vehement. We are here told, for it seems he kept account of it,
(1.) What he pleaded, Ps 30:9. [1.] That God would be no gainer by his death: What profit is there in my blood? implying that he would willingly die if he could thereby do any real service to God or his country (Php 2:17), but he saw not what good could be done by his dying in the bed of sickness, as might be if he had died in the bed of honour. "Lord," says he, "wilt thou sell one of thy own people for nought and not increase thy wealth by the price?" Ps 44:12. Nay [2.] That, in his honour, God would seem to be a loser by his death: Shall the dust praise thee? The sanctified spirit, which returns to God, shall praise him, shall be still praising him; but the dust, which returns to the earth, shall not praise him, nor declare his truth. The services of God's house cannot be performed by the dust; it cannot praise him; there is none of that device or working in the grave, for it is the land of silence. The promises of God's covenant cannot be performed to the dust. "Lord," says David, "if I die now, what will become of the promise made to me? Who shall declare the truth of that?" The best pleas in prayer are those that are taken from God's honour; and then we ask aright for life when we have that in view, that we may live and praise him.
(2.) What he prayed for, Ps 30:10. He prayed for mercy to pardon (Have mercy upon me), and for grace to help in time of need—Lord, be thou my helper. On these two errands we also may come boldly to the throne of grace, Heb 4:16.
III. In due time God delivered him out of his troubles and restored him to his former prosperity. His prayers were answered and his mourning was turned into dancing, Ps 30:11. God's anger now endured but for a moment, and David's weeping but for a night. The sackcloth with which, in a humble compliance with the divine Providence, he had clad himself, was loosed; his griefs were balanced; his fears were silenced; his comforts returned; and he was girded with gladness: joy was made his ornament, was made his strength, and seemed to cleave to him, as the girdle cleaves to the loins of a man. As David's plunge into trouble from the height of prosperity, and then when he least expected it, teaches us to rejoice as though we rejoiced not, because we know not how near trouble may be, so his sudden return to a prosperous condition teaches us to weep as though we wept not, because we know not how soon the storm may become a calm and the formidable blast may become a favourable gale. But what temper of mind was he in upon this happy change of the face of his affairs? What does he say now? He tells us, Ps 30:12. 1. His complaints were turned into praises. He looked upon it that God girded him with gladness to the end that he might be the sweet psalmist of Israel (2Sa 23:1), that his glory might sing praise to God, that is, his tongue (for our tongue is our glory, and never more so than when it is employed in praising God) or his soul, for that is our glory above the beasts, that must be employed in blessing the Lord, and with that we must make melody to him in singing psalms. Those that are kept from being silent in the pit must not be silent in the land of the living, but fervent, and constant, and public, in praising God. 2. These praises were likely to be everlasting: I will give thanks unto thee for ever. This bespeaks a gracious resolution that he would persevere to the end in praising God and a gracious hope that he should never want fresh matter for praise and that he should shortly be where this would be the everlasting work. Blessed are those that dwell in God's house; they will be still praising him. Thus must we learn to accommodate ourselves to the various providences of God that concern us, to want and to abound, to sing of mercy and judgment, and to sing unto God for both.
這是一首感恩詩，為神為大衛所成就的大拯救而作，寫於他奉獻香柏木宮殿之時，並在那敬虔的典禮中歌唱——儘管其中並無任何內容特別針對那一場合。有人從詩篇本身的若干經文推斷，本篇是他在經歷一場危險的大病痊癒之後所寫，而那場病可能恰巧發生在他奉獻房屋前後。一、他在此因神為他所成就的拯救讚美祂（詩 30:1-3）。二、他呼召他人也來讚美祂，並激勵他們信靠祂（詩 30:4-5）。三、他責備自己從前的安逸自恃（詩 30:6-7）。四、他回想自己在患難中所發的祈禱與哀訴（詩 30:8-10）；並藉此激發自己，為如今舒暢的轉機向神深表感恩（詩 30:11-12）。我們歌唱本篇時，當存感恩之心記念神為我們所成就的任何類似拯救，並因此而激發自己讚美祂，也受激勵去倚靠祂。