The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.
- BSB The LORD will sustain him on his bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness.
- NKJV The Lord will strengthen him on his bed of illness; You will sustain him on his sickbed.
- NASB The Lord will sustain him upon his sickbed; In his illness, You restore him to health.
- NLT The Lord nurses them when they are sick and restores them to health.
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Quick answer
The Lord sustains the merciful on his sickbed and restores him from illness. God tends the godly in their weakness.
Overview
Even in sickness, God upholds and renews the one who has cared for others. The image of God at the sickbed is tender and personal. It assures believers of God's nearness in suffering, fulfilled in Christ who bore our infirmities (Matthew 8:17).
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- 2 Kgs 20:5–6Turn 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 73:26My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
- Phil 2:26–27For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
- 2 Cor 4:16–17For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
- 2 Kgs 1:16And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no God in Israel to enquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
- 2 Kgs 1:6And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
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