11 translations · Hebrew
Psalm 30:5
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 in 11 translations
- WEB 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.
- KJV 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.
- BSB 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.
- ASV American Standard Version
- For his anger is but for a moment; His favor is for a life-time: Weeping may tarry for the night, But joy cometh in the morning.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- For—a moment [is] in His anger, || Life [is] in His goodwill, || At evening remains weeping, and at morning singing.
- FBV Free Bible Version
- For his anger only lasts a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime. You may spend the night in tears, but happiness comes with the morning.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- For — a moment [is] in His anger, Life [is] in His good-will, At even remaineth weeping, and at morn singing.
- DBY Darby Translation
- For 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.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- 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.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899 · Psalm 29:6 in this edition
- For wrath is in his indignation; and life in his good will. In the evening weeping shall have place, and in the morning gladness.
The Hebrew words
Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| כִּ֤י | kî | For | H3588 כִּי for |
| רֶ֨גַע׀ | re·ḡa‘ | is fleeting | H7281 רֶ֫גַע moment |
| בְּאַפּוֹ֮ | bə·’ap·pōw | His anger | H639 אַף face: anger |
| חַיִּ֪ים | ḥay·yîm | lasts a lifetime | H2416 חַי alive |
| בִּרְצ֫וֹנ֥וֹ | bir·ṣō·w·nōw | but His favor | H7522 רָצוֹן acceptance |
| בָּ֭עֶרֶב | bā·‘e·reḇ | the night | H6153 עֶ֫רֶב evening |
| יָלִ֥ין | yā·lîn | may stay | H3885 לוּן to lodge |
| בֶּ֗כִי | be·ḵî | Weeping | H1065 בְּכִי weeping |
| וְלַבֹּ֥קֶר | wə·lab·bō·qer | in the morning | H1242 בֹּ֫קֶר morning |
| רִנָּֽה׃ | rin·nāh | but joy [comes] | H7440 רִנָּה cry |
Related verses
- Isaiah 54:7–8
“For a small moment I have forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you. In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.
- 2 Corinthians 4:17
For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
- Psalm 126:5–6
Those who sow in tears will reap in joy. He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.
- Matthew 5:4
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
- John 16:20–22
Most certainly I tell you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world. Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
- Isaiah 26:20
Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.
- Psalm 103:9
He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever.
- Psalm 16:11
You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.
- Psalm 63:3
Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
- Psalm 59:16
But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
3 Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
4 Sing praise to Yahweh, you saints of his. Give thanks to his holy name.
5 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.
6 As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.”
7 You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.
Read all of Psalm 30 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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