Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art 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.
- BSB Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are 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 6:2Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
- Deut 32:39See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
- Ps 106:47Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.
- Ps 6:4Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies’ sake.
- Luke 4:18The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
- Isa 57:18–19I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
- Ps 109:1Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
- Deut 10:21He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
- Jer 15:20And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
- Jer 31:18I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
- Matt 14:30But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.
- Isa 6:10Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
- Matt 8:25And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish.
- Ps 60:5That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.
- Ps 12:4Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
- Ps 148:14He also exalteth the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise ye the LORD.
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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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