Healing Verses
God's power to heal — body, soul, and spirit. Find comfort in His restorative love.
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
They have stricken me, {shalt thou say, and} I was not sick; they have beaten me, {and} I felt {it} not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again. {I felt...: Heb. I knew it not}
The legs of the lame are not equal: so {is} a parable in the mouth of fools. {are...: Heb. are lifted up}
As a mad {man} who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, {firebrands: Heb. flames, or, sparks}
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
All his days also he eateth in darkness, and {he hath} much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this {is} vanity, and it {is} an evil disease.
And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I {am} sick of love. {comfort...: Heb. straw me with apples}
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I {am} sick of love. {that ye: Heb. what, etc}
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love {is} strong as death; jealousy {is} cruel as the grave: the coals thereof {are} coals of fire, {which hath a} most vehement flame. {cruel: Heb. hard}
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. {revolt...: Heb. increase revolt}