Jeremiah 17:14
in Jeremiah 17Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my praise.
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ASV
Heal me, O Jehovah, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
KJV
Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
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This verse in Jeremiah 17
Commentary
5 notes on this verse(Verse 14) Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise. In the Gospel (Matthew 9), many physicians had cured the woman with the issue of blood, who had lost all her substance on them, yet she could not be healed by anyone except by Him who is the true physician, and whose healing is in His wings.
This site's exposition
Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed
on Jeremiah 17:14-18
Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise belongs to the confessions running through chapters 11 to 20, Jeremiah turning from preaching to prayer when the mockery, Where is the word of the Lord? let it come now, grows unbearable. Henry reads the appeal I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee as Jeremiah reminding a God who alone knows it that the threats he carries were never his own choosing. Calvin reads the prayer for his persecutors' confounding, rather than his own, as grief permitted a man asking God to vindicate the word he was made to speak.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed,.... These are the words of the prophet, sensible of his own sins and backslidings, and of the part which he himself had in these corrupt and declining times; and being conscious of his own impotency to cure himself; and being fully satisfied of the power of the Lord to heal him; and being well assured, if he was healed by him, he should be thoroughly and effectually healed; therefore he applies unto him.
"Lord, save me from them, and let me not fall into their wicked hands. Heal me, that is, sanctify me by thy grace; save me, that is, bring me to thy glory." All that shall be saved hereafter are sanctified now; unless the disease of sin be purged out the soul cannot live.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
on Jeremiah 17:14-18
Prayer of the prophet for deliverance from the enemies whom he excited by his faithful denunciations. Heal . . . save--not only make me whole (as to the evils of soul as well as body which I am exposed to by contact with ungodly foes, Jer 15:18), but keep me so. my praise--He whom I have to praise for past favors, and therefore to whom alone I look for the time to come.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
for You are my praise I praise myself and boast with You, saying that You are my Savior.
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
The Lord Who is the source of the hopes of Israel sits upon it. Therefore, all that forsake You shall be shamed.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| רְפָאֵ֤נִי | refaeni | heal me | H7495 → | 67 times |
| יְהוָה֙ | yahweh | O Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| וְאֵ֣רָפֵ֔א | veerafe' | so I may be healed | H7495 → | 67 times |
| הוֹשִׁיעֵ֖נִי | hoshieni | save me | H3467 → | 206 times |
| וְאִוָּשֵׁ֑עָה | veivasheah | so let me be saved | H3467 → | 206 times |
| כִּ֥י | ki | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| תְהִלָּתִ֖י | tehilati | [are] praise my | H8416 → | 56 times |
| אָֽתָּה׃ | ʾatah | you | H859 → | 1094 times |
רְפָאֵ֤נִיheal me
refaeniH7495 →67 times
יְהוָה֙O Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
וְאֵ֣רָפֵ֔אso I may be healed
veerafe'H7495 →67 times
הוֹשִׁיעֵ֖נִיsave me
hoshieniH3467 →206 times
וְאִוָּשֵׁ֑עָהso let me be saved
veivasheahH3467 →206 times
כִּ֥יfor
kiH3588 →4482 times
תְהִלָּתִ֖י[are] praise my
tehilatiH8416 →56 times
אָֽתָּה׃you
ʾatahH859 →1094 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Luke 4:18“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight…
it leads to
- Isaiah 61:1
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty…
- Matthew 11:5
The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.
- Psalms 146:7–8
He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,
- Acts 10:38
how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.
- Luke 7:22
So He replied, “Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and…
- Isaiah 61:1
Through
Deuteronomy 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…
it leads to
- Hosea 6:1
Come, 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.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 1 Samuel 2:6
The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.
- Job 5:18
For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
- Hosea 6:1
Where this verse is studied
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About Jeremiah
This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Calvin, Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.