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Heal me, O Yahweh, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.
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A Prayer of Total Reliance
Commentators see this not just as a plea for physical safety, but as a deep personal confession. Aware of his own weakness and the spiritual sickness around him, Jeremiah turns to God as the only source of true healing and salvation. This serves as a model for our own prayers, acknowledging our total reliance on God for spiritual health and preservation.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
In the rest of the prophecy, Jeremiah dwells upon the moral faults which had led to Judah’s ruin.
Jeremiah 17:6: Like the…
19th Century
Anglican
Heal me. —The prophet, consciously or unconsciously, contrasts himself with the deserters from Jehovah. He needs “healing” and “sa…
16th Century
Protestant
Here the Prophet, as though terrified, hides himself under the wings of God, for he saw that apostasy and every kind of wickedness prevailed everyw…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed These are the words of the prophet, sensible of his own sins and backslidings…
The prophet acknowledges the favor of God in establishing religion. There is fullness of comfort in God—overflowing, ever-flowing fullness, like a …
13th Century
Catholic
He touches on the second source from which the hope of immunity arose: an abundance of riches. He speaks of the confidence the wicked pla…
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