Heal me, O Yahweh, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.
Parallel translations
- KJV Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art 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 on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
- Deut 32:39“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
- Ps 106:47Save us, Yahweh, our God, gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise!
- Ps 6:4Return, Yahweh. Deliver my soul, and save me for your loving kindness’ sake.
- 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 heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
- Isa 57:18–19I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
- Ps 109:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. God of my praise, don’t remain silent,
- Deut 10:21He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things, which your eyes have seen.
- Jer 15:20I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall; and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you,” says Yahweh.
- Jer 31:18“I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
- Matt 14:30But when he saw that the wind was strong, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, “Lord, save me!”
- Isa 6:10Make the heart of this people fat. 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 turn again, and be healed.”
- Matt 8:25They came to him, and woke him up, saying, “Save us, Lord! We are dying!”
- Ps 60:5So that your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us.
- Ps 12:4who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?”
- Ps 148:14He has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise Yah!
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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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