He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions.
Parallel translations
- WEB He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their graves.
- 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.
- 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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Quick answer
God sends his word, heals them, and delivers them from the grave.
Overview
The LORD's healing comes through his powerful word, rescuing the afflicted from destruction. God's word is shown to be effective to save and restore. Christians have long seen here a foreshadowing of Christ, the living Word sent by the Father, who heals the sick and delivers from death by his word of power.
Cross-references & the web
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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