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Psalms 30:6

When I was safe and secure, I thought nothing could hurt me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Confidence;   Self-Delusion;   Testimony;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Self-Delusion;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Wilderness of the Wanderings;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Anger (Wrath) of God;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jonah;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Poetry, Hebrew;   Psalms, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Anger;   Augury;   Life;   Parallelism in Hebrew Poetry;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for February 18;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When I was secure, I said,“I will never be shaken.”
Hebrew Names Version
As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved."
King James Version
And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
English Standard Version
As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved."
New Century Version
When I felt safe, I said, "I will never fear."
New English Translation
In my self-confidence I said, "I will never be upended."
Amplified Bible
As for me, in my prosperity I said, "I shall never be moved."
New American Standard Bible
Now as for me, I said in my prosperity, "I will never be moved."
World English Bible
As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved."
Geneva Bible (1587)
And in my prosperitie I sayde, I shall neuer be moued.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now as for me, I said in my prosperity,"I will never be shaken."
Berean Standard Bible
In prosperity I said, "I will never be shaken."
Contemporary English Version
I was carefree and thought, "I'll never be shaken!"
Complete Jewish Bible
For his anger is momentary, but his favor lasts a lifetime. Tears may linger for the night, but with dawn come cries of joy.
Darby Translation
As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved.
George Lamsa Translation
In my security I said, I shall never be moved.
Good News Translation
I felt secure and said to myself, "I will never be defeated."
Lexham English Bible
But as for me, I had said in my prosperity, "I shall not be moved ever."
Literal Translation
And in my prosperity, I said, I shall never be moved forever.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
As for me, whe I was in prosperite, I sayde: Tush, I shal neuer fall more. (And why? thou LORDE of thy goodnesse haddest made my hill so stronge.)
American Standard Version
As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved.
Bible in Basic English
When things went well for me I said, I will never be moved.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For His anger is but for a moment, His favour is for a life-time;
King James Version (1611)
And in my prosperitie I said, I shall neuer be mooued.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And in my prosperitie I saide, I shall neuer haue a fal:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved.
English Revised Version
As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Y seide in my plentee; Y schal not be moued with outen ende.
Update Bible Version
As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall not be moved-forever.
Webster's Bible Translation
And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
New King James Version
Now in my prosperity I said, "I shall never be moved."
New Living Translation
When I was prosperous, I said, "Nothing can stop me now!"
New Life Bible
As for me, when all was going well, I said, "I will never be moved."
New Revised Standard
As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, I, said, in my tranquility, I shall not be shaken to times age-abiding!
Douay-Rheims Bible
(29-7) And in my abundance I said: I shall never be moved.
Revised Standard Version
As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved."
Young's Literal Translation
And I -- I have said in mine ease, `I am not moved -- to the age.
THE MESSAGE
When things were going great I crowed, "I've got it made. I'm God 's favorite. He made me king of the mountain." Then you looked the other way and I fell to pieces.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now as for me, I said in my prosperity, "I will never be moved."

Contextual Overview

6 When I was safe and secure, I thought nothing could hurt me. 7 Yes, Lord , while you were kind to me, I felt that nothing could defeat me. But when you turned away from me, I was filled with fear. 8 So, Lord , I turned and prayed to you. I asked you, Lord, to show me mercy. 9 I said, "What good is it if I die and go down to the grave? The dead just lie in the dirt. They cannot praise you. They cannot tell anyone how faithful you are. 10 Lord , hear my prayer, and be kind to me. Lord , help me!" 11 You have changed my sorrow into dancing. You have taken away my sackcloth and clothed me with joy. 12 You wanted me to praise you and not be silent. Lord my God, I will praise you forever!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

And: Job 29:18-20, Isaiah 47:7, Isaiah 56:12, Daniel 4:30, Luke 12:19, 2 Corinthians 12:7

I shall: Psalms 15:5, Psalms 16:8, Psalms 119:117

Reciprocal: Genesis 32:25 - touched Job 14:19 - destroyest Psalms 10:6 - not Psalms 102:10 - thou hast Psalms 107:39 - they are Ecclesiastes 2:1 - said Isaiah 38:17 - for peace I had great bitterness Daniel 4:4 - was Jonah 4:7 - prepared Mark 14:31 - he spake Acts 2:25 - I should not

Cross-References

Genesis 30:14
During the wheat harvest Reuben went into the fields and found some special flowers. He brought them to his mother Leah. But Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's flowers."
Genesis 30:16
Jacob came in from the fields that night. Leah saw him and went out to meet him. She said, "You will sleep with me tonight. I have paid for you with my son's flowers." So Jacob slept with Leah that night.
Genesis 30:17
Then God allowed Leah to become pregnant again. She gave birth to a fifth son.
Genesis 30:20
She said, "God has given me a fine gift. Now surely Jacob will accept me, because I have given him six sons." So she named this son Zebulun.
Genesis 30:32
But let me go through all your flocks today and take every lamb with spots or stripes. Let me take every black young goat and every female goat with stripes or spots. That will be my pay.
Genesis 30:35
But that day Laban hid all the male goats that had spots. And he hid all the female goats that had spots on them. He also hid all the black sheep. Laban told his sons to watch these sheep.
Genesis 35:25
His sons by Bilhah, Rachel's maid, were Dan and Naphtali.
Genesis 46:23
Dan's son was Hushim.
Deuteronomy 33:22
Moses said this about Dan: "Dan is a lion's cub that jumps out from Bashan."
Psalms 35:24
Lord my God, judge me with your fairness. Don't let those people laugh at me.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And in my prosperity,.... Either outward prosperity, when he was settled in his kingdom, and as acknowledged king by all the tribes of Israel, and had gotten the victory over all his enemies, and was at rest from them round about; or inward and spiritual prosperity, having a spiritual appetite for the word, being in the lively exercise of grace, growing in it, and in the knowledge of Christ; favoured with communion with God, having flesh discoveries of pardoning grace and mercy, corruptions being subdued, the inward man renewed with spiritual strength, and more fruitful in every good word and work. This being the case,

I said, I shall never be moved; so in outward prosperity men are apt to sing a requiem to themselves, and fancy it will always be thus with them, be in health of body, and enjoying the affluence of temporal things, and so put away the evil day in one sense and another from them; and even good men themselves are subject to this infirmity,

Job 29:18; and who also, when in comfortable frames of soul, and in prosperous circumstances in spiritual things, are ready to conclude if will always be thus with them, or better. Indeed they can never be moved as to their state and condition with respect to God; not from his heart, where they are set as a seal; nor out of the arms of Christ, and covenant of grace; nor out of the family of God; nor from a state of justification and grace; but they may be moved as to the exercise of grace and discharge of duty, in which they vary; and especially when they are self-confident, and depend upon their own strength for the performance of these things, and for a continuance in such frames, which seems to have been David's case; and therefore he corrects himself, and his sense of things, in Psalms 30:7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved - I shall never be visited with calamity or trial. This refers to a past period of his life, when everything seemed to be prosperous, and when he had drawn around him so many comforts, and had apparently made them so secure, that it seemed as if they could never be taken from him, or as if he had nothing to fear. To what precise period of his life the psalmist refers, it is now impossible to ascertain. It is sufficient to say, that men are often substantially in that state of mind. They have such vigorous constitutions and such continued health; their plans are so uniformly crowned with success; everything which they touch so certainly turns to gold, and every enterprise so certainly succeeds; they have so many and such warmly attached friends; they have accumulated so much property, and it is so safely invested - that it seems as if they were never to know reverses, and they unconsciously suffer the illusion to pass over the mind that they are never to see changes, and that they have nothing to dread. They become self-confident. They forget their dependence on God. In their own minds they trace their success to their own efforts, tact and skill, rather than to God. They become worldly-minded, and it is necessary for God to teach them how easily he can sweep all this away - and thus to bring them back to a right view of the uncertainty of all earthly things. Health fails, or friends die, or property takes wings and flies away; and God accomplishes his purpose - a purpose invaluable to them - by showing them their dependence on Himself, and by teaching them that permanent and certain happiness and security are to be found in Him alone.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 30:6. In my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. — Peace and prosperity had seduced the heart of David, and led him to suppose that his mountain-his dominion, stood so strong, that adversity could never affect him. He wished to know the physical and political strength of his kingdom; and, forgetting to depend upon God, he desired Joab to make a census of the people; which God punished in the manner related in 2 Samuel 24:1-17, and which he in this place appears to acknowledge.


 
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