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Will the dust praise you? Will it proclaim your faithfulness?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/psalms/30.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />“What will you gain if I die, if I sink into the grave? Can my dust praise you? Can it tell of your faithfulness?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/psalms/30.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />“What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/psalms/30.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />“What gain is there in my bloodshed, in my descent to the Pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it proclaim Your faithfulness?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/psalms/30.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />What profit <i>is there</i> in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/psalms/30.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />“What profit <i>is there</i> in my blood, When I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your truth?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/psalms/30.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“What gain is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your faithfulness?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/psalms/30.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your faithfulness?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/psalms/30.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise Thee? Will it declare Thy faithfulness?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/psalms/30.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />“What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your truth?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/psalms/30.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“What profit is there in my blood (death), if I go down to the pit (grave)? Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your faithfulness [to man]?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/psalms/30.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />“What gain is there in my death, if I go down to the Pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it proclaim your truth?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/psalms/30.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />What gain is there in my death, if I go down to the Pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it proclaim Your truth? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/psalms/30.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/psalms/30.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />"What good will it do you if I am in the grave? Once I have turned to dust, how can I praise you or tell how loyal you are? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/psalms/30.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/psalms/30.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />"How will you profit if my blood is shed, if I go into the pit? Will the dust [of my body] give thanks to you? Will it tell about your truth?"<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/psalms/30.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />"What will you gain from my death? What profit from my going to the grave? Are dead people able to praise you? Can they proclaim your unfailing goodness? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/psalms/30.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"What profit is there in my death if I go down to the Pit? Can dust worship you? Can it proclaim your faithfulness?"<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/psalms/30.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />?What gain is there in my bloodshed, in my descent to the Pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it proclaim Your faithfulness?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/psalms/30.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />"What profit is there in taking my life, in my descending into the Pit? Can the dust of the grave praise you? Can it declare your loyalty? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/psalms/30.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />"What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/psalms/30.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/psalms/30.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth? <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/psalms/30.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />“What gain [is] in my blood? In my going down to corruption? Does dust thank You? Does it declare Your truth?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/psalms/30.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> What gain is in my blood? In my going down unto corruption? Doth dust thank Thee? doth it declare Thy truth?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/psalms/30.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />What the profit in my blood in my going down to the pit? shall the dust praise thee? shall it announce thy truth?<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/psalms/30.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />What profit is there in my blood, whilst I go down to corruption? Shall dust confess to thee, or declare thy truth? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/psalms/30.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br /><V 29:10>What use would there be in my blood, if I descend into corruption? Will dust confess to you or announce your truth?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/psalms/30.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />“What gain is there from my lifeblood, from my going down to the grave? Does dust give you thanks or declare your faithfulness? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/psalms/30.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />“What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the Pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/psalms/30.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />What profit is there in shedding my blood, when I go down to corruption? The dust will not praise thee and it will not declare thy truth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/psalms/30.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />What profit is there in my blood that I should descend to destruction? The dust does not give thanks to you, neither does it show your faithfulness.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/psalms/30.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise Thee? Shall it declare Thy truth?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/psalms/30.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to destruction? Shall the dust give praise to thee? or shall it declare thy truth?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/psalms/30-9.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nFaD2oDhKPc?start=3128" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/psalms/30.htm">You Turned My Mourning into Dancing</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">8</span>To You, O LORD, I called, and I begged my Lord for mercy: <span class="reftext">9</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/4100.htm" title="4100: mah- (Interrog) -- What? how? anything. ">“What</a> <a href="/hebrew/1215.htm" title="1215: be·ṣa‘ (N-ms) -- Gain made by violence, unjust gain, profit. From batsa'; plunder; by extension, gain.">gain is there</a> <a href="/hebrew/1818.htm" title="1818: bə·ḏā·mî (Prep-b:: N-msc:: 1cs) -- Blood. From damam; blood of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively bloodshed.">in my bloodshed,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3381.htm" title="3381: bə·riḏ·tî (Prep-b:: V-Qal-Inf:: 1cs) -- To come or go down, descend. ">in my descent</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’el- (Prep) -- To, into, towards. ">to</a> <a href="/hebrew/7845.htm" title="7845: šā·ḥaṯ (N-fs) -- A pit. From shuwach; a pit; figuratively, destruction.">the Pit?</a> <a href="/hebrew/6083.htm" title="6083: ‘ā·p̄ār (N-ms) -- Dry earth, dust. From aphar; dust; hence, clay, earth, mud.">Will the dust</a> <a href="/hebrew/3034.htm" title="3034: hă·yō·wḏ·ḵā (V-Hifil-Imperf-3ms:: 2ms) -- To throw, cast. ">praise You?</a> <a href="/hebrew/5046.htm" title="5046: hă·yag·gîḏ (V-Hifil-Imperf-3ms) -- To be conspicuous. ">Will it proclaim</a> <a href="/hebrew/571.htm" title="571: ’ă·mit·te·ḵā (N-fsc:: 2ms) -- Firmness, faithfulness, truth. Contracted from 'aman; stability; certainty, truth, trustworthiness.">Your faithfulness?</a> </span><span class="reftext">10</span>Hear me, O LORD, and have mercy; O LORD, be my helper.”…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/10-9.htm">Job 10:9-10</a></span><br />Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust? / Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/38-18.htm">Isaiah 38:18-19</a></span><br />For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness. / The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/6-5.htm">Psalm 6:5</a></span><br />For there is no mention of You in death; who can praise You from Sheol?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/88-10.htm">Psalm 88:10-12</a></span><br />Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah / Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon? / Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ecclesiastes/9-5.htm">Ecclesiastes 9:5-6</a></span><br />For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten. / Their love, their hate, and their envy have already vanished, and they will never again have a share in all that is done under the sun.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/7-8.htm">Job 7:8-10</a></span><br />The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more. / As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up. / He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/14-7.htm">Job 14:7-12</a></span><br />For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail. / If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil, / at the scent of water it will bud and put forth twigs like a sapling. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/38-17.htm">Isaiah 38:17-19</a></span><br />Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back. / For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness. / The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/115-17.htm">Psalm 115:17</a></span><br />It is not the dead who praise the LORD, nor any who descend into silence.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/146-4.htm">Psalm 146:4</a></span><br />When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/15-42.htm">1 Corinthians 15:42-44</a></span><br />So will it be with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown is perishable; it is raised imperishable. / It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. / It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/14-7.htm">Romans 14:7-9</a></span><br />For none of us lives to himself alone, and none of us dies to himself alone. / If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. / For this reason Christ died and returned to life, that He might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/11-25.htm">John 11:25-26</a></span><br />Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies. / And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-13.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:13-14</a></span><br />Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope. / For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/14-13.htm">Revelation 14:13</a></span><br />And I heard a voice from heaven telling me to write, “Blessed are the dead—those who die in the Lord from this moment on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labors, for their deeds will follow them.”</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? shall it declare your truth?</p><p class="hdg">What</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/6-5.htm">Psalm 6:5</a></b></br> For in death <i>there is</i> no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/88-10.htm">Psalm 88:10-12</a></b></br> Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise <i>and</i> praise thee? Selah… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/115-17.htm">Psalm 115:17,18</a></b></br> The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/psalms/26-9.htm">Blood</a> <a href="/psalms/16-10.htm">Corruption</a> <a href="/psalms/23-4.htm">Death</a> <a href="/psalms/26-7.htm">Declare</a> <a href="/psalms/27-12.htm">Destruction</a> <a href="/psalms/22-29.htm">Dust</a> <a href="/psalms/26-3.htm">Faithfulness</a> <a href="/psalms/10-3.htm">Gain</a> <a href="/psalms/30-2.htm">Help</a> <a href="/psalms/30-3.htm">Pit</a> <a href="/psalms/30-4.htm">Praise</a> <a href="/psalms/26-7.htm">Proclaim</a> <a href="/job/41-6.htm">Profit</a> <a href="/psalms/28-7.htm">Thank</a> <a href="/psalms/26-3.htm">Truth</a> <a href="/psalms/30-3.htm">Underworld</a> <a href="/psalms/25-10.htm">Witness</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/psalms/50-13.htm">Blood</a> <a href="/psalms/49-9.htm">Corruption</a> <a href="/psalms/33-19.htm">Death</a> <a href="/psalms/35-28.htm">Declare</a> <a href="/psalms/34-21.htm">Destruction</a> <a href="/psalms/35-5.htm">Dust</a> <a href="/psalms/33-4.htm">Faithfulness</a> <a href="/psalms/44-12.htm">Gain</a> <a href="/psalms/30-10.htm">Help</a> <a href="/psalms/35-7.htm">Pit</a> <a href="/psalms/30-12.htm">Praise</a> <a href="/psalms/40-5.htm">Proclaim</a> <a href="/psalms/109-11.htm">Profit</a> <a href="/psalms/30-12.htm">Thank</a> <a href="/psalms/31-5.htm">Truth</a> <a href="/psalms/31-17.htm">Underworld</a> <a href="/psalms/50-7.htm">Witness</a><div class="vheading2">Psalm 30</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/psalms/30-1.htm">David praises God for his deliverance</a></span><br><span class="reftext">4. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/psalms/30-4.htm">He exhorts others to praise him by example of God's dealings with him</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/psalms/30.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/psalms/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/psalms/30.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>What gain is there in my bloodshed</b><br>This phrase reflects a plea for deliverance, emphasizing the futility of death from the psalmist's perspective. In the context of ancient Israel, bloodshed often symbolized not only physical death but also the loss of potential to serve and worship God. The psalmist questions the benefit of his death, suggesting that his life is more valuable to God than his death. This echoes the sentiment found in <a href="/isaiah/38-18.htm">Isaiah 38:18-19</a>, where the living are portrayed as those who can praise God, unlike the dead.<p><b>in my descent to the Pit?</b><br>The "Pit" is a metaphor for Sheol, the abode of the dead in Hebrew thought. It represents a place of silence and inactivity, where the dead are cut off from the living and from the worship of God. This reflects the cultural understanding of the afterlife in ancient Israel, where Sheol was seen as a shadowy existence. The psalmist's concern is that in death, he would be unable to fulfill his purpose of glorifying God, a theme also seen in <a href="/psalms/6-5.htm">Psalm 6:5</a>.<p><b>Will the dust praise You?</b><br>"Dust" here symbolizes mortality and the return to the earth after death, as seen in <a href="/genesis/3-19.htm">Genesis 3:19</a>. The rhetorical question implies that the dead, reduced to dust, cannot actively participate in worship or praise. This highlights the belief that life is the arena for worship and service to God. The psalmist underscores the importance of life for the expression of praise, aligning with the broader biblical narrative that values life as a gift from God.<p><b>Will it proclaim Your faithfulness?</b><br>Proclaiming God's faithfulness is a central theme in the Psalms, where the living are called to testify to God's steadfast love and reliability. The psalmist argues that his continued life would allow him to declare God's faithfulness, a duty and privilege that cannot be fulfilled in death. This reflects the covenant relationship between God and His people, where God's faithfulness is a key attribute celebrated throughout scripture, as seen in <a href="/lamentations/3-22.htm">Lamentations 3:22-23</a>. The psalmist's plea is ultimately a call for God to act in accordance with His character, preserving life so that His faithfulness can be proclaimed.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/d/david.htm">David</a></b><br>The author of <a href="/bsb/psalms/30.htm">Psalm 30</a>, traditionally believed to be King David, who often wrote psalms reflecting his personal experiences and relationship with God.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_pit.htm">The Pit</a></b><br>A metaphorical term often used in the Psalms to describe Sheol or the grave, representing death or a place of despair.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_dust.htm">The Dust</a></b><br>Symbolizes death and the lifeless state of the body, emphasizing the inability of the dead to praise God.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_value_of_life_in_praising_god.htm">The Value of Life in Praising God</a></b><br>Life is a precious opportunity to praise and serve God. Our existence is not just for our benefit but to glorify God through our actions and words.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_urgency_of_faithfulness.htm">The Urgency of Faithfulness</a></b><br>Since life is finite, there is an urgency to live faithfully and proclaim God's faithfulness while we have the chance.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_futility_of_death_without_god.htm">The Futility of Death Without God</a></b><br>Death without a relationship with God is portrayed as futile. It is a reminder to seek God earnestly while we are alive.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_desire_for_our_praise.htm">God's Desire for Our Praise</a></b><br>God desires our praise and faithfulness, which can only be offered while we are alive. This should motivate us to live lives that honor Him.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/trust_in_god's_deliverance.htm">Trust in God's Deliverance</a></b><br>David's plea reflects a trust in God's ability to deliver and restore, encouraging believers to rely on God's power in times of trouble.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_psalm_30.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Psalm 30</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/can_'dust'_praise,_contradicting_mortality.htm">Psalm 30:9: How can “dust” offer praise, and is this a contradiction of modern understandings of human mortality and consciousness? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_if_one_rejects_belief_in_god.htm">What does being rescued from mud and mire mean?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_psalm_9_12_fit_a_loving_god.htm">Psalm 9:12 suggests God avenges bloodshed; how does this align with the concept of a loving God, especially in light of contradictory examples throughout history?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_to_reconcile_isaiah_63's_violence.htm">Isaiah 63:7-9 speaks of God's lovingkindness and mercy; how can this be harmonized with the violent imagery earlier in the chapter?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/psalms/30.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(9) <span class= "bld">What profit . . .</span>--<span class= "ital">i.e., </span>to God. For the conception of death as breaking the covenant relation between Israel and Jehovah, and so causing loss to Him as well as to them (for Sheol had its own king or shepherd, <span class= "ital">Death</span>) by putting an end to all religious service, comp. Hezekiah's song; <a href="/isaiah/38-18.htm" title="For the grave cannot praise you, death can not celebrate you: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for your truth.">Isaiah 38:18</a>. Comp. also <a href="/psalms/6-5.htm" title="For in death there is no remembrance of you: in the grave who shall give you thanks?">Psalm 6:5</a>, and note <a href="/psalms/88-11.htm" title="Shall your loving kindness be declared in the grave? or your faithfulness in destruction?">Psalm 88:11</a>.) Plainly as yet no hope, not even a dim one, had arisen of praising God beyond the grave. The vision of the New Jerusalem, with the countless throngs of redeemed with harps and palms, was yet for the future.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/psalms/30.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 9.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit!</span> What advantage wilt thou derive from my death, if thou killest me, either by the plague, which may as well fasten upon me as upon any one else, or by the misery and mental strain of seeing my subjects, my innocent sheep, suffer? God has "no pleasure in the death of him that dieth" (<a href="/ezekiel/18-32.htm">Ezekiel 18:32</a>), and certainly can obtain no profit from the destruction of any of his creatures. <span class="cmt_word">Shall the dust praise thee?</span> (comp. <a href="/psalms/6-5.htm">Psalm 6:5</a>; <a href="/psalms/88-10.htm">Psalm 88:10</a>; <a href="/psalms/115-17.htm">Psalm 115:17</a>; <a href="/isaiah/38-18.htm">Isaiah 38:18</a>). In death, so far as the power of death extends, there can be no action; the lips cease to move, and therefore cannot hymn God's praise - the "dust" is inanimate, and, while it remains dust, cannot speak. What the freed soul may do, the psalmist does not consider. Very little was known under the old dispensation concerning the intermediate state. <span class="cmt_word">Shall it declare thy truth?</span> The dust certainly could not do this, unless revivified and formed into another living body. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/psalms/30-9.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">“What</span><br /><span class="heb">מַה־</span> <span class="translit">(mah-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Interrogative<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4100.htm">Strong's 4100: </a> </span><span class="str2">What?, what!, indefinitely what</span><br /><br /><span class="word">gain</span><br /><span class="heb">בֶּ֥צַע</span> <span class="translit">(be·ṣa‘)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1215.htm">Strong's 1215: </a> </span><span class="str2">Gain made by violence, unjust gain, profit</span><br /><br /><span class="word">is in the shedding of my blood,</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּדָמִי֮</span> <span class="translit">(bə·ḏā·mî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1818.htm">Strong's 1818: </a> </span><span class="str2">Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in my descent</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּרִדְתִּ֪י</span> <span class="translit">(bə·riḏ·tî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3381.htm">Strong's 3381: </a> </span><span class="str2">To come or go down, descend</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to</span><br /><span class="heb">אֶ֫ל־</span> <span class="translit">(’el-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> </span><span class="str2">Near, with, among, to</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the Pit?</span><br /><span class="heb">שָׁ֥חַת</span> <span class="translit">(šā·ḥaṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7845.htm">Strong's 7845: </a> </span><span class="str2">A pit, destruction</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Will the dust</span><br /><span class="heb">עָפָ֑ר</span> <span class="translit">(‘ā·p̄ār)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6083.htm">Strong's 6083: </a> </span><span class="str2">Dust, clay, earth, mud</span><br /><br /><span class="word">praise You?</span><br /><span class="heb">הֲיוֹדְךָ֥</span> <span class="translit">(hă·yō·wḏ·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3034.htm">Strong's 3034: </a> </span><span class="str2">To throw, at, away, to revere, worship, to bemoan</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Will it proclaim</span><br /><span class="heb">הֲיַגִּ֥יד</span> <span class="translit">(hă·yag·gîḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5046.htm">Strong's 5046: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be conspicuous</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Your faithfulness?</span><br /><span class="heb">אֲמִתֶּֽךָ׃</span> <span class="translit">(’ă·mit·te·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_571.htm">Strong's 571: </a> </span><span class="str2">Stability, certainty, truth, trustworthiness</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/psalms/30-9.htm">Psalm 30:9 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/psalms/30-9.htm">Psalm 30:9 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/psalms/30-9.htm">Psalm 30:9 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/psalms/30-9.htm">Psalm 30:9 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/psalms/30-9.htm">Psalm 30:9 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/psalms/30-9.htm">Psalm 30:9 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/psalms/30-9.htm">Psalm 30:9 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/psalms/30-9.htm">Psalm 30:9 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/psalms/30-9.htm">Psalm 30:9 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/psalms/30-9.htm">Psalm 30:9 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/psalms/30-9.htm">OT Poetry: Psalm 30:9 What profit is there in my destruction (Psalm Ps Psa.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/psalms/30-8.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 30:8"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 30:8" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/psalms/30-10.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 30:10"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 30:10" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>