14Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-18)Here, as often before, we have the prophet retired for private meditation, and alone with God . Those ministers that would have comfort in their work must be much so. In his converse here with God and his own heart he takes the liberty which devout souls sometimes use in their soliloquies, to pass from one thing to another, without tying themselves too strictly to the laws of method and coherence.…
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