O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
A thank-you prayer after recovery: I cried to You, and You healed me.
KJV1I will extol thee, O Lord; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me. 2O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. 3O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. 4Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. 5For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
Israel’s prayer book: songs of trust, lament, thanks and praise, many of them by David.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Isaiah’s suffering servant, fulfilled in Jesus: His wounds bring peace with God and healing at the root, first from sin (1 Peter 2:24), and in the end from every wound.
Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
Do not carry illness alone: call the elders of the church to pray over you and anoint you. The prayer is theirs to pray and the healing is the Lord’s to give; an unanswered prayer is not a verdict on your faith.
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Peter applies Isaiah 53 to the cross: Christ carried our sins, and by His wounds we are healed, first from sin itself.
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Your weakness is the place where God’s grace and power show up most clearly.