Chapter 30

David.

David, near the end of his life, thanks God for restoring him.  This seems to say that David's punishment does end before his death.  There is this verse:

[Psa 30:5 ESV] 5 For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.

1st Stanza, David thanks God for restoring him.

2nd, Praise encouraged, because God's favor last forever, His anger but a moment.

3rd, David says he was immovable when God was with him, dismayed when God was not.  The contrast between being in God's will, and out of it.

4th, David seems to be asking for longer life, so that he may continue to praise God.  If he is dead, dust doesn't praise.

5th, Thanks to God for turning mourning to gladness, thanks to God forever.

2021- Preview says this was a song at the dedication of the Temple.  Was David still alive, or had he written this for the occasion before he died?

2023 - David still thinks like a warrior.  He thanks God for victory over his enemies.  Vs 3 seems to say that David was forgiven for the Bathsheba incident and the consequences played out to the end before he died.  The closeness that David had with God as a young man finally returned before he died.  And doesn't verse 5, so often quoted, completely reinforce this idea?  Here are those verses:

3 O LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit. ...

5 For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning. ...

And look also at this verse.  Doesn't this say that David craved a long life on earth?  He justifies continuing on earth because that gives him longer to praise God. 

9 "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? 10 Hear, O LORD, and be merciful to me! O LORD, be my helper!" [Psa 30:3, 5, 9-10 ESV].

Wow..."Will the dust praise you?"  David loved life.