Psalms 30:6 - Exposition

And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved; rather, as in the Revised Version, and as for me , in my prosperity I said , etc. There is a marked pause, and introduction of a new subject in a new strophe. Prosperity had worked an ill effect on the psalmist, had made him self-confident and proud. He "said in his heart," as the wicked man in Psalms 10:6 , only in still stronger phrase, "I shall not be moved;" literally, I shall not be moved for ever. His heart was lifted up, and in the spirit of self-glorification he gave command for the numbering of the people. The result was the plague, and the death of seventy thousand of his subjects. Into these details he does not here enter. He is content to trace his sin to its bitter root of pride, and to glance at its punishment ( Psalms 10:7 ) and his repentance ( Psalms 10:8-10 ).