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Psalm 30:2

LORD my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.

1A Psalm. A Song for the Dedication of the Temple. By David. I will extol you, LORD, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.
2LORD my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.
3LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
4Sing praise to the LORD, you saints of his. Give thanks to his holy name.
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The move from crying out to naming God’s healing makes this a verse of thanks, with the earlier distress still present in the sentence.

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Where else Scripture says this

10 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 103:3who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,Both psalms credit God with healing; Psalm 103 also names his forgiveness of sins.
2 Kings 20:5“Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, ‘The LORD, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. …David recounts crying to God and receiving healing; Hezekiah receives God’s promise of healing after his prayer and tears.
Psalm 147:3He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.Both name God as the healer, with Psalm 147 speaking of broken hearts and wounds.
Psalm 6:2Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am faint. LORD, heal me, for my bones are troubled.Psalm 6 asks the LORD for healing amid bodily distress; Psalm 30 thanks him for healing received.
Genesis 20:17Abraham prayed to God. So God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.Both passages recount prayer followed by God’s healing, though Abraham prays for others and David speaks of himself.
Exodus 15:26He said, “If you will diligently listen to the LORD your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, …The LORD identifies himself as the one who heals in Exodus; David credits that same LORD with healing him.
James 5:14–15Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;Both connect prayer with sickness or healing; James directs the sick person to seek prayer from the assembly’s elders.
Mark 5:29Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.Both describe healing already received; Mark specifies the woman’s bleeding stopped, while David leaves his affliction unnamed.
Mark 5:33But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.Both recount a personal experience, though Psalm 30 names healing and Mark’s verse leaves what happened to the woman unstated.
Luke 18:43Immediately he received his sight and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.David acknowledges God after being healed; the man in Luke glorifies God after receiving his sight.
Where this verse fits

Answered prayer. illness or diagnosis. gratitude.

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Address one prayer for healing to “LORD my God”

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Encouragement

If you are still asking for healing, David’s words need not become a deadline for recovery. He looks back on help received and gives God the credit.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).