O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.
- BSB O LORD my God, I cried to You for help, and You 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
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- Ps 103:3–4Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
- 2 Kgs 20:5Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.
- Ps 6:2Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
- Ps 147:3He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
- Exod 15:26And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.
- Gen 20:17So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
- Jas 5:14–15Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
- Ps 88:13But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
- Ps 51:8Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
- Ps 107:17–22Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
- Ps 118:18The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.
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