Psalms 30:5

But a moment. God’s anger is very short in the case of one who sins, repents, confesses, and prays for mercy (vs. 8–10).

In his favour. Unlike His wrath, His favor is enduring; it lasts throughout men’s lives (see Ps. 16:11).

May endure. Heb. lin, “to spend the night”. The idea expressed by the Hebrew is “weeping comes in the evening to spend the night, but in the morning there is joy”.

Joy. Heb. rinnah, “a cry of joy.” The suddenness of joy in the morning is represented in the Hebrew by the simple “at dawn, a shout of joy,” without a verb. As the sun in tropical lands, without a long period of twilight, seems to burst into full glory above the horizon, so the light of God’s love suddenly dispels the darkness of sadness (see Isa. 26:20; 54:7, 8). If we have the friendship of God, the night of sorrow will always give way to the morning of joy. The parallelism is carefully preserved in the pairs of words: “anger”—“favour”; “moment”—“life”; “night”—“morning”; “weeping”—“joy.”