O Lord my God, I cried to you for help, and you restored my health.
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.
- 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.
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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 103:3–4who forgives all your sins; who heals all your diseases;
- 2 Kgs 20:5“Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you will go up to Yahweh’s house.
- Ps 6:2Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
- Ps 147:3He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
- Exod 15:26and he said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”
- Gen 20:17Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.
- Jas 5:14–15Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,
- Ps 88:13But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.
- Ps 51:8Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
- Ps 107:17–22Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.
- Ps 118:18Yah has punished 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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