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Bible study · Psalm 30:1-12

Psalm 30: Mourning into dancing

Read Psalm 30:1-12 before you meet.

In a few lines

In Psalm 30, "you have raised me up" (30:1) is dalah, a verb for drawing water. "I shall never be moved" (30:6), said in prosperity, opens with two Hebrew words that Psalm 10's wicked man and Psalm 16 also say. And the verb of the cry "Shall the dust praise you?" (30:9) comes back in the psalm's last line: "I will give thanks to you forever!" (30:12).

The verse to carry

“For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.”

Psalm 30:5

To talk about

  1. 1. "As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.”" (30:6). When things were going well for you, what did you tell yourself? What happened to that when things changed?

  2. 2. "Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning" (30:5). Think of a night of weeping you have come through. What was the morning like, and how long did it take to come?

  3. 3. The psalm ends, "to the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent" (30:12), and it calls others to praise too (30:4). Who could you tell this week about something the LORD has brought you through?

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