O LORD my God, I cried to You for help, and You healed me.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.
- KJV O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
- NKJV O Lord my God, I cried out to You, And You healed me.
- NASB Lord my God, I cried to You for help, and You healed me.
- NLT O Lord my God, I cried to you for help, and you restored my health.
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Quick answer
David recounts crying to God, who healed him. It testifies that God answers prayer and restores.
Overview
Whether from illness or some near-death distress, David attributes his healing directly to God in response to prayer. The verse models bringing our afflictions to God and acknowledging Him as the source of recovery. It foreshadows Christ, the great Healer of body and soul.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Ps 103:3–4He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,
- 2 Kgs 20:5“Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD.
- Ps 6:2Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.
- Ps 147:3He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
- Exod 15:26saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
- Gen 20:17Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that they could again bear children—
- Jas 5:14–15Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.
- Ps 88:13But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You.
- Ps 51:8Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.
- Ps 107:17–22Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.
- Ps 118:18The LORD disciplined me severely, but He has not given me over to death.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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