Psalms 6:2

David cries for mercy and healing, for he is weak and his very bones are troubled. He brings his physical and spiritual distress to God.

Cross-references · 19

• Hos 6:1Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
• Ps 30:2O LORD my God, I cried to You for help, and You healed me.
• Ps 31:10For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.
• Jer 17:14Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my praise.
• Ps 41:3–4The LORD will sustain him on his bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness.
• Deut 32:39See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
• Ps 51:8Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.
• Job 33:19–21A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,
• Ps 38:7For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.
• Ps 38:3There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.
• Gen 20:17Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that they could again bear children—
• Num 12:13So Moses cried out to the LORD, “O God, please heal her!”
• Ps 32:3When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
• Matt 4:24News about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering acute pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed—and He healed them.
• Job 5:18For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
• 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.”
• Ps 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
• Ps 103:13–17As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.
• Job 19:21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.

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