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The heart of the Psalm is in v7 & v8 because the Name of YHVH appears 10 times and appears in v7 & v8, pointing to the centre, where His Name is.

Psa 30:7-8
(7) O YHVH, by Your favor You have made my mountain to stand strong; You hid Your face, and I was troubled. (8) I cried to You, O YHVH; and I prayed to YHVH.

Favour

Favour – “ratson”, meaning; favour, acceptance, will, desire, pleasure, self-will. Favour first used in Scripture:

Gen 49:5-6
(5) Simeon and Levi are brothers; tools of violence are their weapons. (6) Oh my soul, do not come into their secret. Let not my honor be united with their assembly. For in their anger they killed a man, and in their self-will they hamstrung a bull.

This favour is not in a positive context and shows the will of man that is strong, not seeking the will of YHVH. By might and strength of man, their wills are formed. But it says in Ps 30 that it is YHVH’s will. How can this be? When there is a contras like this, it means that there is something deeper here. This ‘favour’ shows us that when your will is strong, YHVH will make your will His will, and you will bear the bad consequences.


Mountain:

Mountain first found in Scripture:

Gen 14:6
and the Horites in their Mount Seir, as far as the oak of Paran, which is by the wilderness.

Horites:

Horite means cave dweller, from the word “choree”, meaning; heat (of anger), burning (of anger), to become white, linen weaver. This gives us the picture that these people hid themselves in holes and caves, because of someone else’s anger. Can it be that maybe YHVH is angry?

Mount

a Mountain is a high place and connected to the word meaning ‘Altar’, associated with worship.

Seir:

Seir means; Seirath, hairy; goat; demon; tempest, and gives this mountain a negative connotation. The Horites are people that offer to demons and the wrath of YHVH is upon them, and this is why they hid in the caves. Sounds like the end times when the people will hid themselves from the judgment of YHVH.

Oak of Paran:

Oak means; ram (as sacrifice), ram (skin dyed red, for tabernacle), pillar, door post, strong man, leader, chief, mighty tree. Paran means; beauty; glory; ornament.

The scene takes place where Abraham rescued his nephew Lot, taken captive during the attack on a lot of nations, including the Horites at mount Seir. Chedorlaomer attacked the Horites at mount Seir in the fourteenth year.

14th Year

In Hebrew it is “Arbah Ashar”

Arbah – four – Work of the Messiah

Ar – Lion
Bah - to ask, seek, request, desire, pray.

Ashar – Ten, tenth (First used in Jacob’s trouble, fleeing from Esau, promise YHVH tenth.)

Chedorlaome

Chedorlaome meaning; roundness of a sheaf (reap barley)

The Chedorlaomites are a picture of Y’shua, coming to reap and to judge the nations. Only those found at the Oak of Paran will be saved, because they have the Ram, (Y’shua) as Sacrifice, and His blood on their doorposts. He is their Leader, the Lion of Judah. They are the people who sought Him and desired to do His will and they are full of His beauty and His Glory.

What is the lesson for us here?

If we look at Ps 30 again, we see that the psalmist is actually in distress and seeking YHVH with a troubled heart. Why do you think he feels this way, why did YHVH hid His face from him? Looking at the backdrop of meanings for ‘favour’ and ‘mountain’, the psalmist did something out of his flesh, and now he realized what he did and experience the dryness of YHVH's distance. He was faced with the reality, dealing with a living all powerful God, and that His anger was upon him.

The lesson we must learn; YHVH is not a man, He is not Somebody to play with. He is Someone to fear because of His greatness.He wants us to seek Him, seek His will, what He wants, and not what we think he wants.

There is another lesson to learn; in this we saw an extreme case of devil worship, they will definitely be judged. The people seeking their own will, instead of YHVH’s will, fall into the same category. What then is the will of YHVH? I think it is very important to find out.

The will of YHVH is to have the blood of Y’shua on your doorposts and to seek His Word, asking Him to reveal it to you. To desire after His ways and the way he wants you to live. Legalism is seeking man’s ways or your own ways. Righteousness is seeking YHVH first, and to seek and live His ways. This is the quality of life, Chai Olam, a set apart life, lived unto Him, that He revealed to us in His Word. This will make you beautiful and desirable to Him as His Bride.

David did a lot of things wrong in his life, and the joy that welled up in him was because of YHVH’s forgiveness after his repentance. To experience the ultimate in joy, you have to have a very deep hole of darkness to be set free from, without you deserving it. This is what motivated David to sing this Psalm to YHVH, knowing that he had done evil things, but still YHVH’s glory covered him after repentance, turning from his evil ways.

The most subtile evil way, is to be strong self-willed. It is the same as the sin of witchcraft. Accept YHVH’s Word in meekness, conform to it and let it change you into beauty and cover you with glory.

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