About this song
About this song
This song belongs to the Psalms collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.
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I will lift You high, Lord, because You pulled me up
And did not let the ones against me have their laugh.
Lord my God, I called out to You
And You made me well.
You brought me back up from the grave;
You kept me breathing
So I would not go down into the pit.
Sing to the Lord, all you who belong to Him,
And give thanks when you remember how holy He is.
His anger lasts a moment;
His kindness lasts a life.
Crying can stay the whole night,
But gladness arrives in the morning.
When things were easy I said
Nothing is ever going to shake me.
Lord, it was Your kindness
That made my mountain stand at all;
You hid Your face, and I came apart.
I called out to You, Lord;
I kept asking and asking.
What good is my blood if I go down to the pit?
Can dust give You thanks?
Can it say out loud that You are true?
Hear me, Lord. Be kind to me.
Lord, be the one who helps me.
You turned my mourning into dancing.
You took the rough cloth off me
And tied gladness around me instead,
So that everything in me can sing to You
And never go quiet again.
Lord my God, I will thank You
As long as there is any of me left.
About the passage
Psalms 30: The morning after a confidence that failed
Psalm 30 remembers rescue and also remembers a bad conclusion drawn from prosperity. The Book of Psalms opens with a life lifted from the edge of the pit, then invites the saints to praise the God whose anger is brief and whose favor is life. Weeping and morning joy frame the reversal, but the speaker does not turn that poetry into a mechanical timetable for suffering. Instead, he looks back at the confidence that once said, "I shall never be moved," and recognizes that the mountain stood because of God's favor. When that favor was experienced as hidden, the supposed self-evident stability vanished. The closing transformation is physical and vocal: mourning becomes dancing, sackcloth becomes gladness, and threatened silence becomes praise. The psalm ends with permanence again, but no longer the permanence of invulnerability. The durable thing now is thanksgiving to the one who restored the speaker's life.
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