Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.
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Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.
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O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
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(30-3) O LORD my God, I cried unto Thee, and Thou didst heal me;
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Passages linked to Psalms 30:2 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 103:3-4 who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies,
- 2 Kings 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.
- Psalms 6:2 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
- Psalms 147:3 He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
- Exodus 15:26 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.”
- Genesis 20:17 Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.
- Psalms 88:13 But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.
- James 5:14-15 Is 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, and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
- Psalms 51:8 Let me hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
- Psalms 107:17-22 Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities. Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death. Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, he saves them out of their distresses. He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their graves. Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men! Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his deeds with singing.
- Psalms 118:18 Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Restored from the rebellion of Absalom.
Restored from the rebellion of Absalom.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 30:2 O LORD my God, I cried unto…
Psa 30:2 O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
Ver. 2. I cried unto thee] In some great sickness, say some, that befell him about the time that he built his house of cedar, 2Sa 5:11, that he might not be overjoyed, and take a surfeit; or rather, when, by my son’s rising up against me, I was likely to have lost my state and kingdom.
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And thou hast healed me] That is, helped me, as Jon 2:6, thou hast restored and re-established me in my kingdom. Kimchi senseth it thus, Thou hast delivered my soul from hell, though in this world thou hast grievously afflicted my body.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain i.e. Delivered me from the fears and troubles of…
i.e. Delivered me from the fears and troubles of my mind, which are oft compared to diseases, and from very dangerous distempers of my body.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain O Lord my God, I cried unto thee,.... In…
O Lord my God, I cried unto thee,.... In the time of his distress and trouble; and whither should he go but unto his covenant God and Father?
and thou hast healed me: either of some bodily disease that attended him; for the Lord is the physician of the body, as well as of the soul; and that either immediately, or by giving a blessing to means used; and the glory of such a mercy should be given to him: or else of soul diseases, which are natural and hereditary, epidemical, nauseous, mortal, and incurable, but by the grace of God and blood of Christ; and the healing: of them either respects the pardon of them at first conversion; for healing diseases, and forgiving iniquities, signify one and the same thing; or else fresh discoveries and applications of pardoning grace, after falls into sin, which are an healing backslidings, and restoring comforts; and this is God's work; none can heal but himself, and he does it effectually, universally, and freely, and which calls for thankfulness, Psa 103:1; or this may be understood in a civil sense, of restoring him to his house, his throne and kingdom, and the peace of it.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 2. Thou hast healed me.] Thou hast removed…
Verse 2. Thou hast healed me.] Thou hast removed the plague from my people by which they were perishing in thousands before my eyes.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Psa 30:2-3. Thou hast healed me — That is,…
Psa 30:2-3. Thou hast healed me — That is, delivered me from the fears and troubles of my mind, (which are often compared to diseases,) and from very dangerous distempers of my body. For the original word is used, either of the healing of bodily disorders, Psa 103:3, or to denote the happy alteration of a person’s affairs, either in public or private life, by the removal of any kind of distress, personal or national, Psa 107:20; Isa 19:22. Thou hast brought up my soul from the grave — My deliverance is a kind of resurrection from the grave, on the very brink of which I was. Under Saul he was frequently in the most imminent danger of his life, out of which God wonderfully brought him. Thou hast kept me alive — This he adds, to explain the former phrase, which was ambiguous. That I should not go down to the pit — That is, into the grave, which is often called the pit.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain O Lord my God, I cried unto thee -…
O Lord my God, I cried unto thee - In the time of trouble and danger.
And thou hast healed me - Thou didst restore me to health. The language here evidently refers to the fact that he had been sick, and had then been restored to health.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain healed me--Affliction is often described as disease (Psa 6:2;…
healed me--Affliction is often described as disease (Psa 6:2; Psa 41:4; Psa 107:20), and so relief by healing.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 2. Thou hast healed me—The word for “healed” often…
2. Thou hast healed me—The word for “healed” often means, figuratively, to restore to prosperity, whether of a nation, (Psa_60:2; Isa_6:10;) or, morally, of individuals, (Jer_3:22;) or, physically, of bad waters and malarious marshes, (2Ki_2:22; Eze_47:9; Eze_47:11.) David had suffered as the head of the nation, as a king and father for his people, and had been reduced to great distress and perplexity, from which he was now “healed” or restored.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 2. healed me] Best taken literally of restoration from…
2. healed me] Best taken literally of restoration from sickness.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and…
O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. "Heal" may be used metaphorically for the removal of mental sufferings; (see Psa_41:4 Psa_147:3) but David"s grief when he saw the sufferings of his people from the plague seems to have wholly prostrated him, both in mind and body. For the nature of the "cry" spoken of, comp. vers. 8-10, which are an expansion of the present verse.
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 2. O Lord my God, I cried unto…
Ver. 2. O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. David sent up prayers for himself and for his people when visited with the pestilence. He went at once to head quarters, and not roundabout to fallible means. God is the best physician, even for our bodily infirmities. We do very wickedly and foolishly when we forget God. It was a sin in Asa that he trusted to physicians and not to God. If we must have a physician, let it be so, but still let us go to our God first of all; and, above all, remember that there can be no power to heal in medicine of itself; the healing energy must flow from the divine hand. If our watch is out of order, we take it to the watchmaker; if our body or soul be in an evil plight, let us resort to him who created them, and has unfailing skill to put them in right condition. As for our spiritual diseases, nothing can heal these evils but the touch of the Lord Christ: if we do but touch the hem of his garment, we shall be made whole, while if we embrace all other physicians in our arms, they can do us no service. "O Lord my God." Observe the covenant name which faith uses"my God." Thrice happy is he who can claim the Lord himself to be his portion. Note how David's faith ascends the scale; he sang "O Lord" in the first verse, but it is "O Lord my God, "in the second. Heavenly heart music is an ascending thing, like the pillars of smoke which rose from the altar of incense. I cried unto thee. I could hardly pray, but I cried; I poured out my soul as a little child pours out its desires. I cried to my God: I knew to whom to cry; I did not cry to my friends, or to any arm of flesh. Hence the sure and satisfactory resultThou hast healed me. I know it. I am sure of it. I have the evidence of spiritual health within me now: glory be to thy name! Every humble suppliant with God who seeks release from the disease of sin, shall speed as well as the Psalmists did, but those who will not so much as seek a cure, need not wonder if their wounds putrefy and their soul dies.
Ver. 2. Thou hast healed me. (wnakdt) The verb is used, either for the healing of bodily disorders Ps 103:3, or to denote the happy alteration of any person's affairs, either in private or public life, by the removal of any kind of distress, personal or national. Ps 107:20 Isa 19:22. So in the place before us: "Thou hast healed me, "means, Thou hast brought me out of my distresses, hast restored my health, and rendered me safe and prosperous. Under Saul, he was frequently in the most imminent danger of his life, out of which God wonderfully brought him, which he strongly expresses by saying, "Thou hast brought up my soul from Hades: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit." I thought myself lost, and that nothing could prevent my destruction, and we can scarce help looking on the deliverance thou hast vouchsafed me otherwise than as a kind of restoration from the dead: Thou hast revived me, or recovered me to life, from amongst those who go down to the pit; according to the literal rendering of the latter clause. Samuel Chandler.
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Ver. 2. The sick man, the physician, the night bell, the medicine, and the cure; or, a covenant God, a sick saint, a crying heart, a healing hand.
Psalms 30:3*
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