Psalm 30:5 (KJV)

What does this mean?

This verse says that God's anger lasts only a moment, while His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning. The picture is of sorrow that is real but temporary, and joy that arrives with the new day.

What does this teach us?

Hard seasons are not the whole story — they are the night, not the destination. God's favor outlasts His discipline, and morning always follows. This does not mean pain is small; it means pain is not permanent.

How can we apply this?

If you are in a night season right now, let this verse name it: it is a night, and morning is coming. Do one small thing that points toward morning — get up, step outside, pray honestly. And if someone near you is weeping, sit with them until their morning comes.

Related KJV passages

• “They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.”

  Psalm 126:5

• “It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.”

  Lamentations 3:22-23

• “Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.”

  Psalm 42:11