Psalms 30:5

“For his anger [endureth but] a moment, etc.] Anger is not properly in God, he being a simple, uncompounded, immovable, and unchangeable being; nor is it ever towards his people in reality, unless anger is distinguished from wrath, and is considered as consistent with his everlasting and invariable love to them; but only in their apprehension, he doing those things which in some respects are similar to those which men do when they are angry; he turns away from them and hides his face, he chides, chastises, and afflicts, and then they conclude he is angry; and when he returns again and takes off his hand, manifests his pardoning love, and comforts them, then they understand it that his anger…”

“Relatively, the longest experience of divine anger by the pious is momentary. These precious words have consoled millions.”

“For his anger endureth but a moment - Margin: There is but “a moment in his anger.” So the Hebrew. That is, his anger endures but a short time, or brief period. The reference here is to the troubles and sorrows through which the psalmist had passed, as compared with his subsequent happiness. Though at the time they might have seemed to be long, yet, as compared with the many mercies of life, with the joy which had succeeded them, and with the hopes now cherished, they seemed to be but for a moment. God, according to the view of the psalmist, is not a Being who cherishes anger; not one who lays it up in his mind; not one who is unwilling to show mercy and kindness: he is a Being who is…”

“Cometh - Speedily and in due season. Psalms 30:7”

“For: Psa 103:9, Psa 103:17; Isa 26:20, Isa 54:7, Isa 54:8, Isa 57:15, Isa 57:16; Co2 4:17 his anger: etc. Heb. there is but a moment in his anger in his: Psa 16:11, Psa 36:7-9, Psa 63:3; Rev 22:1, Rev 22:17 weeping: Psa 6:6-9, Psa 56:8-11, Psa 126:5, Psa 126:6; Isa 38:3-5; Mat 5:4; Joh 16:20-22; Co2 7:9, Co2 7:10 for a night: Heb. in the evening joy: Heb. singing in the: Psa 46:5 \*marg. Psa 59:16, Psa 143:8; Gen 32:24 \*marg. Hos 6:3 Psalms 30:6”