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Jeremiah 30:17
But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Yahweh addresses Zion (Jerusalem) at the pivot between judgment and restoration: her enemies have just been turned against themselves (v. 16), and the rebuilding of the city follows immediately (v. 18).
The words — אֲרֻכָּה ('arukkah, "healing") derives from a root meaning "to lengthen," so the noun carries the sense of extending back to full measure. The verb אֶרְפָּאֵךְ ('erpa'ekha, "I will heal you") is the strong divine healing verb (רפָּא), the same root behind the noun.
The thread — Jeremiah 33:6 repeats the identical formula ("health and healing, and I will heal") for the same city, and 1 Peter 2:24 picks up the מַכּוֹת ("strokes/wounds") language to apply it to Christ.
Why it lands — The verse names the specific wound: being called an outcast and having no one care. It places the healing entirely on God's side, leaving the reader to hold the reality of the wound without either denying it or reducing it to a metaphor.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
Cross-references
- Psalms 107:20 He sent forth His word and healed them; He rescued them from the Pit.
- 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.
- 1 Peter 2:24 He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
- Psalms 103:3 He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,
- Exodus 15:26 saying, “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 I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
- Psalms 23:3 He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for the sake of His name.
- 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.
- Malachi 4:2 “But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.
- Ezekiel 34:16 I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’
- Revelation 22:2 down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.