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Psalms 30:5
Psalms 30:5 is verse 5 of Psalms chapter 30, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
King James Version
For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
World English Bible
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.
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Psalms 30:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible
3 O LORD, You pulled me up from Sheol; You spared me from descending into the Pit.
4 Sing to the LORD, O you His saints, and praise His holy name.
5 For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
6 In prosperity I said, “I will never be shaken.”
7 O LORD, You favored me; You made my mountain stand strong. When You hid Your face, I was dismayed.
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Cross-references
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Psalms 103:9He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever.
Psalms 103:17But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the LORD extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children—
Isaiah 26:20Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.
Isaiah 54:7“For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.
Isaiah 54:8In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.
Isaiah 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
Isaiah 57:16For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me, with the breath of those I have made.
2 Corinthians 4:17For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal glory that is far beyond comparison.
Psalms 16:11You have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand.
Psalms 36:7How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings!
Psalms 36:8They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights.
Psalms 36:9For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.
Psalms 63:3Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You.
Revelation 22:1Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb
Revelation 22:17The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.
Psalms 6:6I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
Psalms 6:7My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.
Psalms 6:8Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard my weeping.
Psalms 6:9The LORD has heard my cry for mercy; the LORD accepts my prayer.
Psalms 56:8You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle— are they not in Your book?
Psalms 56:9Then my enemies will retreat on the day I cry for help. By this I will know that God is on my side.
Psalms 56:10In God, whose word I praise, in the LORD, whose word I praise,
Psalms 56:11in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
Psalms 126:5Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.
Psalms 126:6He who goes out weeping, bearing a trail of seed, will surely return with shouts of joy, carrying sheaves of grain.
Isaiah 38:3saying, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
Isaiah 38:4And the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying,
Isaiah 38:5“Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
Matthew 5:4Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
John 16:20Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.
John 16:21A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.
John 16:22So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.
2 Corinthians 7:9And now I rejoice, not because you were made sorrowful, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you felt the sorrow that God had intended, and so were not harmed in any way by us.
2 Corinthians 7:10Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
Psalms 46:5God is within her; she will not be moved. God will help her when morning dawns.
Psalms 59:16But I will sing of Your strength and proclaim Your loving devotion in the morning. For You are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble.
Psalms 143:8Let me hear Your loving devotion in the morning, for I have put my trust in You. Teach me the way I should walk, for to You I lift up my soul.
Genesis 32:24So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
Hosea 6:3So let us know— let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.