John Trapp on Psalms 30:5

Verſ. 5. For his anger endureth but a moment] Though it laſts all a mans life; for what's that to eternity? Junctumeſt quod vivimus & puncto minus. But it ſoon repenteth the Lord concerning his ſervants; whom, out of love diſpleaſed, hee correcteth for a ſhort braid, Ifa. 54.7, 8.2 Cor. 14.17. Iſa. 26.20. Heb. 10.37. Tantillum, tantillum, adbuc puſillum. Bear up therefore, faint not, fret not.

Flebile principium melior fortuna ſequetur.

If our ſorrowes be long, they are light; if ſharper the ſhorter. The ſharp North Eaſt-wind never laſteth three dayes; nothing violent is permanent.

In his favour is life] Vita in voluntate, elſe wee ſhould dye in our ſins; but his favour never faileth. Kimchi here noteth that of thoſe thirteen attributes of God, Exod. 34.7. twelve are mercy, and one only is anger. Joſeph for his thirteen years of ſervitude and impriſonment, had fourſcore years freedome and preferment. Davids perſecution by Saul was but a moment to his following happineffe when once he came to the Kingdome.

Weeping may endure for a night] Diſeafes and aches are worſt toward night. At even-tide loe there is trouble; but afore morning it is gone, Iſa. 17.14 mourning laſterfi but till morning, and then departeth; as did Lots two Angels. The morning of the Reſurrection howſoever, ſhall put a period to all our miſeries; and make a plentifull amends.

But joy commeth in the morning] Heb. Singing; flebilibus modis modus adbibebitur. God turneth his peoples ſighing into ſinging, their muſing into muſick, tears into triumph, wringing of hands into dapping of hands for joy, &c. And as there is a viciſſitude of nights and dayes; ſo of croſſes and mercies to Gods people, whiles they are in this vale of miſery, and valley of tears. God checkereth his providences (ſaith One) white and black; hee ſpeckleth his work, as is ſet forth by thoſe ſpeckled horſes among the Myrtle-trees, Zach. 1.8. Mercies and Croſſes are interwoven. This World is called a valley of tears, or as ſome render it, of Mulberrytrees, Pſal. 84.6. Betwixt them both, they may make up an emblem of the Saints condition here. Tears are moiſt; Mulberries grow in dry places. Gods people have their interchanges of joyes and ſorrows, whilſt here. See in this and the following verſes the circle God goes in with them. David was afflicted and delivered, in this verſe; In the next hee grew wanton. Then he is troubled again, Verſ. 7. cryeth again, 8, 9. God turneth his mourning into mirth again, 11, 12.