Psalm 30 (29)
I will praise you because you have freed me. Nothing is definitive in this
life. The Lord alternates joys and sorrows according to what we need for the
development of our faith. We are, at times, surprised: the trials discourage
us as if God no longer existed, and when God gives favors, we dare not
believe them to be true.
2 I extol you, O Lord, for you have rescued me; my enemies will not gloat
over me.
3 O Lord my God, I called to you for help, and you healed me.
4 O Lord, you have brought me up from the grave, you gave me life when I was
going to the pit.
5 Sing to the Lord, O you his saints, give thanks and praise to his holy
name.
6 For his anger lasts but a little while, and his kindness all through life.
Weeping may tarry for the night, but rejoicing comes with the dawn.
7 Once in my prosperity I said, ��I shall not be troubled.��
8 Yet it was you, O Lord, who made me stand on the rock; as soon as you hid
your face, I wavered!
9 To you, O Lord, I called; to you I begged for mercy:
10 ��What good would there be in my destruction, in my going down to the pit?
Would my dust give you praise?
Would it prove your faithfulness?
11 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy on me; O Lord, be my protector.��
12 But now, you have turned my mourn ing into rejoicing; you have taken off
my sackcloth and wrap ped me in the garments of gladness.
13 And so my soul, no longer silent, now sings praise without ceasing. O
Lord my God, forever will I give you thanks.
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