Psalms 103:3
3. diseases—as penal inflictions (De 29:22; 2Ch 21:19).
Isaiah 1:6
6. From the lowest to the highest of the people; "the ancient and honorable, the head, the prophet that teacheth lies, the tail." See Isa 9:13-16. He first states their wretched condition, obvious to all (Isa 1:6-9); and then, not previously, their irreligious state, the cause of it.
wounds—judicially inflicted (Ho 5:13). mollified with ointment—The art of medicine in the East consists chiefly in external applications (Lu 10:34; Jas 5:14). Jeremiah 17:14
14-18. Prayer of the prophet for deliverance from the enemies whom he excited by his faithful denunciations.
Heal . . . save—not only make me whole (as to the evils of soul as well as body which I am exposed to by contact with ungodly foes, Jer 15:18), but keep me so. my praise—He whom I have to praise for past favors, and therefore to whom alone I look for the time to come.
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