I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.
The dedication of the house of David - namely, the site of the future temple which Solomon built. The Hebrew, chªnukat (H2598), means the consecration of a new building. When David, after the plague sent for numbering the people, offered sacrifices upon the altar of burnt offering, the Lord, by fire from heaven, consecrated the place as "the house of God" (2 Samuel 24:16-25; 1 Chronicles 21:18-30). Heretofore, Gibeon had been the place of the altar; but henceforth the floor of Araunah, by the direction of the prophet Gad, was "the house of God," even before the temple was built on it. Compare 1 Chronicles 22:1-2, with Genesis 28:17-19. Pride through prosperity, and a sudden and severe, but temporary reverse, appear alike in the psalm and in the history. Not the act, but the motive, was the sin, cf. Exodus 30:12 with 2 Samuel 24:3; 2 Samuel 24:15; Psalms 30:6 here. The deliverance resulted from David's prayer; cf. Psalms 30:8-10 with 1 Chronicles 21:17-18; the "sackcloth," 1 Chronicles 21:16, accords with Psalms 30:11. On the terms 'Psalm and Song' х mizmowr (H4210) and shiyr (H7892), a joyful "song"] see introductions to the Psalms and to the Poetical books. Dathe, in Rogers, better translates the title, 'A Psalm of David, a Song at the dedication of the house' (namely, of God; as "THE house" emphatically means): for "the house," in Hebrew, cannot be construed with "of David" on account of the article being prefixed. So the Chaldaic paraphrase. Psalms 30:1-12.-David's thanksgiving for deliverance from the verge of the pit (Psalms 30:1-3); call to the saints to give thanks for God's holiness, the source of the grace which turns the weeping of the night into the joy of the morning (Psalms 30:4-5); prosperity had caused overweening confidence; so God hid His face and trouble ensued, which drove David to prayer (Psalms 30:8-10); so God turned mourning to dancing and thanksgiving (Psalms 30:11-12.)
I will extol ... lifted me up. David will exalt the Lord, because the Lord has exalted him. The Hebrew х daalah (H1802)] is properly to draw one up us out of a pit or well (cf. Psalms 30:3-9). David had well-nigh "gone down to the pit."
Hast not made ... The calamity was of so short duration that, though severe, it afforded but little occasion for malicious exultation to David's foes. David had declined the alternative offered him, to flee before his enemies for three months (2 Samuel 24:13).