Psalms 30:11

Psalms 30:11 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
• New International Version (NIV)You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,
• English Standard Version (ESV)You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,
• New King James Version (NKJV)You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; You have put off my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,

Context of Psalms 30:11

9What profit is there in my blood, in my going down to the pit? shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth? 10Hear, O Jehovah, and be gracious unto me; Jehovah, be my helper. Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; thou hast loosed my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; 12That [my] glory may sing psalms of thee, and not be silent. Jehovah my God, I will praise thee for ever.

Psalms 30:11 word by word

הָפַ֣כְתָּ מִסְפְּדִי֮ לְמָח֪וֹל לִ֥י פִּתַּ֥חְתָּ שַׂקִּ֑י וַֽתְּאַזְּרֵ֥נִי שִׂמְחָֽה׃Read the interlinear

Cross-references for Psalms 30:11

• Psalms 30:5For a moment [is passed] in his anger, a life in his favour; at even weeping cometh for the night, and at morn there is rejoicing.
• Psalms 126:1When Jehovah turned the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
• Genesis 37:35And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, and said, For I will go down to my son into Sheol mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
• Genesis 45:28And Israel said, It is enough: Joseph my son is yet alive; I will go and see him before I die.
• 2 Chronicles 20:3And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek Jehovah, and proclaimed a fast throughout Judah.
• Esther 9:22as the days on which the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month that was turned to them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
• Isaiah 25:8He will swallow up death in victory. And the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Jehovah hath spoken.
• Isaiah 66:10Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all ye that love her; rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn over her:
• John 16:20Verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, ye, but the world shall rejoice; and ye will be grieved, but your grief shall be turned to joy.
• Revelation 7:14And I said to him, My lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they who come out of the great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
• Revelation 21:4And he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall not exist any more, nor grief, nor cry, nor distress shall exist any more, for the former things have passed away.
• Psalms 149:3Let them praise his name in the dance; let them sing psalms unto him with the tambour and harp.
• Psalms 150:4Praise him with the tambour and dance; praise him with stringed instruments and the pipe;
• 2 Samuel 6:14And David danced before Jehovah with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
• Ecclesiastes 3:4A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
• Jeremiah 31:4I will build thee again, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel! Thou shalt again be adorned with thy tambours, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.

Commentaries on Psalms 30:11

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11Thou hast turned - my mourning into dancing - Rather into piping. I have not prayed in vain. Though I deserved to be cut off from the land of the living, yet thou hast spared me, and the remnant of my people. Thou hast taken away my sackcloth, the emblem of my distress and misery, and girded me with gladness, when thou didst say to the destroying angel, when he stood over Jerusalem ready to destroy it: "It is enough, stay now thy hand;" 2 Samuel 24:16.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11Thou hast turned for me - In my behalf. That is, God had heard his prayer; he had brought his troubles to an end; he had caused his sorrows to be succeeded by correspondent joy. My mourning into dancing - Joy, exultation, every expression of rejoicing, had been made to succeed his deep sorrows. Compare Psalm 30:5. It was this which he commemorated at the dedication of his house; this joy succeeding scenes of sorrow that he now called to remembrance as he…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-12Verses 6-12 When things are well with us, we are very apt to think that they will always be so. When we see our mistake, it becomes us to think with shame upon our carnal security as our folly. If God hide his face, a good man is troubled, though no other calamity befal him. But if God, in wisdom and justice, turn from us, it will be the greatest folly if we turn from him. No; let us learn to pray in the dark. The sanctified spirit, which returns to God…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-12The psalmist faced death (also in Psalm 30:1–3), either literally or figuratively. When he turned to the Lord, the Lord rescued him and changed his mourning into joyful dancing. Only God's favor can permanently and powerfully overcome human failure and deep despair.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 8-118-11. As in Psa 6:5; 88:10; Is 38:18, the appeal for mercy is based on the destruction of his agency in praising God here, which death would produce. The terms expressing relief are poetical, and not to be pressed, though "dancing" is the translation of a word which means a lute, whose cheerful notes are contrasted with mourning, or (Am 5:16) wailing.Read the comment

Topics related to Psalms 30:11

• Dancing
• Joy
• Thankfulness

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Commentaries on Psalms 30

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• The Treasury of David
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings