Psalm 30 is a song
of deliverance in the key of joy. Rescued from the foe, helped by healing,
brought back from the depths of the pit the psalmist has seen it all and is
glad that the day of refreshment has finally dawned. But the worst of what was endured is
perhaps understated. “When you hid your face I was dismayed.” Weeping through
the night watches the psalmist is clothed in the sackcloth of God’s absence and
the moment of God’s anger seems to last a lifetime. Crying into that silence the psalmist is not above making a deal. “What good am I to you dead?”
When the morning of deliverance comes the rejoicing is unrestrained and one
jumps for the joy of it, for even if silence and sorrow and suffering are
remembered the new dawn trumps whatever one went through to see the sun rise.
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