Psalms 30:5

30:5 For his anger lasts only a brief moment,

and his good favor restores one’s life. ¹ 

One may experience sorrow during the night,

but joy arrives in the morning. ² 

Psalms 30:11

30:11 Then you turned my lament into dancing;

you removed my sackcloth and covered me with joy. ³ 

Proverbs 31:7

31:7 let them ⁴  drink and forget ⁵  their poverty,

and remember their misery no more.

Isaiah 65:16

65:16 Whoever pronounces a blessing in the earth ⁶ 

will do so in the name of the faithful God; ⁷ 

whoever makes an oath in the earth

will do so in the name of the faithful God. ⁸ 

For past problems will be forgotten;

I will no longer think about them. ⁹ 

[30:5]  ¹ tn Heb “for [there is] a moment in his anger, [but] life in his favor.” Because of the parallelism with “moment,” some understand חַיִּים (khayyim) in a quantitative sense: “lifetime” (cf. NIV, NRSV). However, the immediate context, which emphasizes deliverance from death (see v. 3), suggests that חַיִּים has a qualitative sense: “physical life” or even “prosperous life” (cf. NEB “in his favour there is life”).

[30:5]  ² tn Heb “in the evening weeping comes to lodge, but at morning a shout of joy.” “Weeping” is personified here as a traveler who lodges with one temporarily.

[30:11]  ³ sn Covered me with joy. “Joy” probably stands metonymically for festive attire here.

[31:7]  ⁴ tn The subjects and suffixes are singular (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB). Most other English versions render this as plural for stylistic reasons, in light of the preceding context.

[31:7]  ⁵ tn The king was not to “drink and forget”; the suffering are to “drink and forget.”

[65:16]  ⁶ tn Or “in the land” (NIV, NCV, NRSV). The same phrase occurs again later in this verse, with the same options.

[65:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “will pronounce a blessing by the God of truth.”

[65:16]  ⁸ tn Heb “will take an oath by the God of truth.”

[65:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “for the former distresses will be forgotten, and they will be hidden from my eyes.”