It is exam week at our high school, so I was in a different class than I normally am during announcements, a class where I could pay attention to them. Imagine what a pleasant surprise it was, then, for me to see these words scroll across the screen:
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
I recognized the quote right away, and I thought (briefly), “Oh how nice! A quote from the Bible!”
Imagine my surprise, then, when the scrolling continued and I saw that the students had attributed the quote to George Weiss!
“No,” I thought,”certainly no one would plagiarize the Bible!”
I was wrong. This site is only one of many that attribute the above quote to George Weiss.
The teacher with whom I was working is a former reporter, and I told him it was his duty to point the error out to the teacher who runs the announcements and demand a correction. He just laughed.
So I’m here to set the record straight. According to my Bible, the above quote comes from Psalm 30:5. This was a psalm and song at the dedication of the house of David.
God knows what He said, and His Word does not return unto Him void, so I guess in the long run, the correction wouldn’t really matter.Tomorrow is the last day of school for a while, and who will remember? Just for my own peace of mind though, I think I will check on it anyway.
