Bible Strands
Psalms 30:2
O LORD my God, I cried to You for help, and You healed me.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — David, speaking to Yahweh in a song for the temple dedication, immediately after declaring in v.1 that God lifted him up and denied his foes their victory. The moment is one of retrospective testimony: the crisis has passed, the healing is done.
The words — שִׁוַּעְתִּי (shi.va'.ti, "I cried for help," H7768) carries the sense of a desperate, urgent plea, not a casual request. The waw-consecutive in וַתִּרְפָּאֵנִי (va.tir.pa.'E.ni, "and you healed me," H7495) marks the healing as the direct result of that cry.
The thread — Yahweh as healer in response to human need runs through 2 Kings 20:5 (Hezekiah's extended life), Psalms 103:3 (forgiving iniquities, healing diseases), and Psalms 147:3 (healing the brokenhearted, binding wounds). The pattern is consistent: a specific person in distress, a divine act of restoration.
Why it lands — The verse models a bare-bones prayer of need and its answer, with no ritual language or theological argument between the cry and the healing. It asks the reader to name the God who answers and to own the fact that the answer came.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
Cross-references
- 2 Kings 20:5 “Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD.
- Psalms 103:3 He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,
- Psalms 147:3 He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
- Psalms 6:2 Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.
- Genesis 20:17 Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that they could again bear children—
- 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 88:13 But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You.
- James 5:14 Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.
- Psalms 51:8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.
- Psalms 107:17 Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.