Psalms 30:1 «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.
A Psalm and Song] i.e. A holy hymn, first framed in metre, then sung with men's voices.
At the dedication of the house of David] Either when it was newly built, 2 Samuel 5:11, confer Deu 20:5 Nehemiah 12:27, saying, as he once,
Iamque, meos dedo tibi, Princeps, iure Penates,
Tu mihi ius dederas, posse vocare meos.
God so loveth his people that their walls are ever in his sight, Isaiah 49:16 ; they should therefore have holiness to the Lord written upon them, Zechariah 14:20 , sanctified they should be by the word and prayer, 1 Timothy 4:5 . Or else, after he had defiled it by his adultery with Bathsheba, and Absalom had much more defiled it by his abominable incest and other villanies, See 2 Samuel 20:3 .
Ver. 1. I will extol thee, O Lord; for thou hast lifted me up ] De puteo peccati caenoso, saith Kimchi, out of the miry pit of sin; or out of the ditch of deadly danger, say others. Therefore I will extol thee, that is, I will have high and honourable conceptions of thee. I will also do mine utmost, both by words and deeds, that thou mayest be acknowledged by others to be as thou art, the great and mighty monarch of the whole world.
And hast not made my foes to rejoice over me] Beside all former victories, Absalom and Sheba were lately slain.