What Does Psalm 30:1 Mean in the King James?
A Psalm and Song at the dedication of the house of David. I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
As you are drawn up from below, praise becomes the voice that raises the LORD.
THE MEANING
This verse speaks when you are drawn out of a depth that seemed to leave you exposed to your enemies. Your rescue becomes praise, and those poised to celebrate your defeat do not define what happens next.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Your lowest point is the final verdict, and those waiting for your failure control the ending.
THE ROOT
דִּלִּיתָנִי
dillîtānî
GROWS FROM
דלה
dalah
To draw up, especially water from a well.
The Hebrew verb can evoke drawing something up from below, so “lifted me up” carries an image of being brought out from depth. That same verb describes drawing water and drawing hidden counsel to the surface.
ALSO GROWS
dālōh: To draw water.
דָּלֹה
In Exodus, this form describes drawing water; it lets the rescue here carry the feel of something brought up from below.
yidlenāh: He will draw it out.
יִדְלֶנָּה
Proverbs uses this same root for bringing counsel out of deep water, revealing the depth-to-surface image beneath the verse.
אֲרוֹמִמְךָ
ʾărômimkā
GROWS FROM
רום
rum
To rise, be high, or raise up.
“extol” in this verse is ʾărômimkā. The speaker says, in effect, “I will raise you up,” using a verb of height for praise. The verse places that upward song beside being drawn up from below, so rescue becomes the ground of exaltation.
ALSO GROWS
rām: High or exalted.
רָם
This adjective shares the root’s language of height, clarifying the upward sense carried by “extol.”
mārôm: Height or a high place.
מָרוֹם
This noun makes the root’s spatial image visible: praise raises the LORD in the speaker’s voice.
THE PATTERN
The one brought low is raised, while apparent power loses the last word.
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.THE THREAD
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.The verb translated “draw it out” comes from דלה (dalah, to draw up), the same root as “lifted me up” here. Proverbs pictures hidden counsel being brought up from deep water; Psalm 30 lets that same verb carry the speaker’s rescue from below.
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