Psalms 30:5

God's anger lasts a moment but His favor a lifetime; weeping may last the night, but joy comes in the morning. It assures that God's grace outweighs His chastening.

Cross-references · 23

• Isa 54:7–8“For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.
• 2 Cor 4:17For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison.
• Ps 126:5–6Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.
• Matt 5:4Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
• John 16:20–22Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.
• Isa 26:20Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.
• Ps 103:9He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever.
• Ps 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.
• Ps 63:3Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You.
• Ps 6:6–9I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
• Ps 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.
• Ps 46:5God is within her; she will not be moved. God will help her when morning dawns.
• Ps 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.
• 2 Cor 7:9–10And 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.
• Ps 56:8–11You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle—are they not in Your book?
• Ps 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—
• Isa 57:15–16For 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.
• Hos 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.
• Ps 36:7–9How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings!
• Isa 38:3–5saying, “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.
• Rev 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.
• Gen 32:24So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
• Rev 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

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