Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my praise.
Parallel translations
- WEB Heal me, O Yahweh, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.
- KJV Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
- NKJV Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved, For You are my praise.
- NASB Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed; Save me and I will be saved, For You are my praise.
- NLT O Lord, if you heal me, I will be truly healed; if you save me, I will be truly saved. My praises are for you alone!
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Quick answer
Jeremiah prays for God to heal and save him, knowing salvation comes from the Lord alone. He makes God himself his praise.
Overview
Turning from warning to personal prayer, the prophet pleads for healing and deliverance, confessing that only the Lord can truly heal and save. The repeated assurance affirms that God's saving work is certain and complete. This dependence anticipates the gospel, where salvation belongs wholly to the Lord and Christ is the great healer and Savior of his people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Ps 6:2Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.
- Deut 32:39See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
- Ps 106:47Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.
- Ps 6:4Turn, O LORD, and deliver my soul; save me because of Your loving devotion.
- Luke 4:18“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,
- Isa 57:18–19I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will guide him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,
- Ps 109:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O God of my praise, be not silent.
- Deut 10:21He is your praise and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome wonders that your eyes have seen.
- Jer 15:20Then I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to save and deliver you, declares the LORD.
- Jer 31:18I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.
- Matt 14:30But when he saw the strength of the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!”
- Isa 6:10Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
- Matt 8:25The disciples went and woke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!”
- Ps 60:5Respond and save us with Your right hand, that Your beloved may be delivered.
- Ps 12:4They say, “With our tongues we will prevail. We own our lips—who can be our master?”
- Ps 148:14He has raised up a horn for His people, the praise of all His saints, of Israel, a people near to Him. Hallelujah!
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Against the failure of false shepherds Jeremiah promises the Righteous Branch, 'The LORD our righteousness,' and the new covenant written on the heart and sealed in the blood of Christ.
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