Psalm 30 is among the thanksgiving psalms, which form the flip side to the prayer psalms of the individual. The prayer psalms generally close with a vow of praise that once Yahweh has delivered the supplicant, the supplicant will sing a thanksgiving psalm to Yahweh. The issue of Psalm 30 in particular is death and silence versus life and praise. It begins with a proclamation of praise and an introductory summary of Yahweh’s deliverance (v. 1) and of the worshiper’s calling and Yahweh’s responding (vv. 2–3). A congregation is then summoned to hymnic praise (vv. 4–5). The report of the deliverance is repeated, this time narrating briefly the distress (vv. 6–7). Then the report spells out further the substance of the worshiper’s cry for help (vv. 8–10), which climaxes in Yahweh’s transforming…