Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
The prayer is a sincere appeal to the Lord to heal and to save, made in confidence that He alone can do both and that He alone is worthy of praise. To ask Him for healing and rescue and to call Him praise is to look to Him alone for healing and salvation. The prayer carries assurance that His power will accomplish what is asked, so that the healing and salvation He gives will be complete.
The appeal was made amid rejection of God, challenge to the prophet's message, and persecution, when the Lord was also named as the prophet's hope in adversity. The surrounding figures and warnings were fulfilled and continue in present history. In that connection the prayer means trusting in the Lord rather than in man, with a heart that has not departed from the Lord, taking hold of God's strength and making peace with Him. It calls those who have trusted in people rather than the Lord to turn to God, in contrast to making flesh an arm and forsaking the fountain of living waters for polluted fountains, drinking infidelity, learning the way of the heathen, and drawing others away from pure truth. The Lord is Israel's hope and fountain of living waters, and the one whose hope the Lord is is blessed like a tree planted by the waters that stays green and does not cease yielding fruit in heat and drought.
All who forsake Him and depart from Him shall be ashamed and written in the earth. Those who profess to believe truth yet trust in flesh and turn from pure truth are fools though they profess themselves wise. The verse gives physicians words to speak as they take their stand on vantage ground in the power of the Lord and stand firm to their allegiance amid temptation and danger. It calls them to work together with Christ, the great Physician and wonderful Healer, to restore suffering humanity to health with nature's remedies and not with drugs.
The prayer is a sincere appeal to the Lord to heal and to save, made in confidence that He alone can do both and that He alone is worthy of praise. To ask Him for healing and rescue and to call Him praise is to look to Him alone for healing and salvation. The prayer carries assurance that His power will accomplish what is asked, so that the healing and salvation He gives will be complete.
The appeal was made amid rejection of God, challenge to the prophet's message, and persecution, when the Lord was also named as the prophet's hope in adversity. The surrounding figures and warnings were fulfilled and continue in present history. In that connection the prayer means trusting in the Lord rather than in man, with a heart that has not departed from the Lord, taking hold of God's strength and making peace with Him. It calls those who have trusted in people rather than the Lord to turn to God, in contrast to making flesh an arm and forsaking the fountain of living waters for polluted fountains, drinking infidelity, learning the way of the heathen, and drawing others away from pure truth. The Lord is Israel's hope and fountain of living waters, and the one whose hope the Lord is is blessed like a tree planted by the waters that stays green and does not cease yielding fruit in heat and drought.
All who forsake Him and depart from Him shall be ashamed and written in the earth. Those who profess to believe truth yet trust in flesh and turn from pure truth are fools though they profess themselves wise. The verse gives physicians words to speak as they take their stand on vantage ground in the power of the Lord and stand firm to their allegiance amid temptation and danger. It calls them to work together with Christ, the great Physician and wonderful Healer, to restore suffering humanity to health with nature's remedies and not with drugs.