He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their graves.
Parallel translations
- KJV He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
- BSB He sent forth His word and healed them; He rescued them from the Pit.
- NKJV He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions.
- NASB He sent His word and healed them, And saved them from their destruction.
- NLT He sent out his word and healed them, snatching them from the door of death.
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Cross-references · 12
- Matt 8:8The centurion answered, “Lord, I’m not worthy for you to come under my roof. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed.
- Ps 103:3–4who forgives all your sins; who heals all your diseases;
- Ps 147:15He sends out his commandment to the earth. His word runs very swiftly.
- Ps 147:3He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
- 2 Kgs 20:4–5Before Isaiah had gone out into the middle part of the city, Yahweh’s word came to him, saying,
- Job 33:28–30He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.’
- Ps 56:13For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.
- Ps 147:18–19He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
- Job 33:23–26“If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;
- Ps 30:2–3Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.
- Ps 49:15But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.
- Num 21:8–9Yahweh said to Moses, “Make a venomous snake, and set it on a pole. It shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”
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