Psalms 30:2
in Psalms 30O LORD my God, I cried to You for help, and You healed me.
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ASV
O Jehovah my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
KJV
O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
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This verse in Psalms 30
Commentary
14 notes on this verseFor as much as someone directs their intention towards the Lord, they elevate the Lord even more, and they themselves are elevated. Hence, he says: I will exalt you, O Lord, for you have lifted me up. For the holy person exalts the Lord, while the sinner humbles Him.
This site's exposition
I will exalt You, O LORD
on Psalms 30:1-3
The rescue is already done: lifted up, healed, pulled up from Sheol. The Pit beside it is the grave, and the psalm says God spared him from going down into it. The man who sings was close to death.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers3 voices
"O Lord, My God, I have cried unto You, and You have healed Me" [Psalm 30:2]. O Lord, My God, I have cried unto You, and I no longer bear about a body enfeebled and sick by mortality.
"O Lord, My God, I have cried unto You, and You have healed Me" [Psalm 30:2]. O Lord, My God, I have cried unto You, and I no longer bear about a body enfeebled and sick by mortality.
Human nature did not beseech God and look for reprieve from destruction; rather, it constantly fell to wailing and weeping, with death in view and no expectation of resurrection. Accordingly, the psalmist made mention of the tears and laments that occur with the sick and …
The Medieval Church1 voice
Then when he says "O Lord my God," he shows how he was delivered. And first from interior evils. Second from exterior evils, at "O Lord, you have brought up." The interior evil is infirmity, either bodily or spiritual. Both of these could exist in …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
26 ), and we must give him the glory of it. That it was the saving of his life; for he was brought to the last extremity, dropping into the grave, and ready to go down into the pit, and yet rescued and kept alive,
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The Nineteenth Century6 voices
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.
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 result— Thou 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!
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.
Thou hast healed me - Thou hast removed the plague from my people by which they were perishing in thousands before my eyes.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
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.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
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.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
I will exalt You, O Lord, for You have raised me up Heb. דליתני, You have lifted me on high.
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A song of dedication of the House which the Levites will say at the dedication of the House in the days of Solomon.
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. 6 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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| יְהוָ֥ה | yahweh | O Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֱלֹהָ֑י | ʾelohai | God my | H430 → | 2601 times |
| שִׁוַּ֥עְתִּי | shiva'ti | I cried for help | H7768 → | 21 times |
| אֵ֝לֶ֗יךָ | ʾeleikha | to you | H413 → | 5510 times |
| וַתִּרְפָּאֵֽנִי׃ | vatirpaeni | and you healed me | H7495 → | 67 times |
יְהוָ֥הO Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֱלֹהָ֑יGod my
ʾelohaiH430 →2601 times
שִׁוַּ֥עְתִּיI cried for help
shiva'tiH7768 →21 times
אֵ֝לֶ֗יךָto you
ʾeleikhaH413 →5510 times
וַתִּרְפָּאֵֽנִי׃and you healed me
vatirpaeniH7495 →67 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
Exodus 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…
it leads to
- Psalms 103:3
He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,
- Deuteronomy 7:15
And the LORD will remove from you all sickness. He will not lay upon you any of the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but He will inflict them on all who hate you.
- Exodus 23:25
So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take away sickness from among you.
- Psalms 41:3–4
The LORD will sustain him on his bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness.
- Psalms 147:3
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
- Psalms 103:3
Through
Psalms 147:3He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
it leads to
- Psalms 34:18
The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.
- Job 5:18
For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
- Jeremiah 33:6
Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
- Psalms 34:18
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About Psalms
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Psalms; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Ambrose of Milan, On Isaac and the Soul, Chapter VII, 57; Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 30; Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, Vol. 2; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible; Theodoret of Cyrus, COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 30:2 and Thomas Aquinas, Exposition on the Psalms of David.