Bible Verses About Sickness

All food doth their soul abominate, And they come nigh unto the gates of death,

And cry unto Jehovah in their adversity, From their distresses He saveth them,

He sendeth His word and healeth them, And delivereth from their destructions.

They confess to Jehovah His kindness, And His wonders to the sons of men,

Also all his days in darkness he consumeth, and sadness, and wrath, and sickness abound.

Wherefore are ye stricken any more? Ye do add apostasy! Every head is become diseased, and every heart is sick.

And Hezekiah turneth round his face unto the wall, and prayeth unto Jehovah,

and saith, `I pray thee, O Jehovah, remember, I pray Thee, how I have walked habitually before Thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and that which is good in thine eyes I have done;' and Hezekiah weepeth--a great weeping.

Go, and thou hast said to Hezekiah, Thus said Jehovah, God of David thy father, `I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tear, lo, I am adding to thy days fifteen years,

A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah concerning his being sick, when he reviveth from his sickness:

My sojourning hath departed, And been removed from me as a shepherd's tent, I have drawn together, as a weaver, my life, By weakness it cutteth me off, From day unto night Thou dost end me.

As a crane--a swallow--so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O Jehovah, oppression is on me, be my surety.

--What do I say? seeing He said to me, And He Himself hath wrought, I go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.

Lo, to peace He changed for me bitterness, And Thou hast delighted in my soul without corruption, For Thou hast cast behind Thy back all my sins.

The living, the living, he doth confess Thee.

Like myself to-day--a father to sons Doth make known of Thy faithfulness, O Jehovah--to save me: And my songs we sing all days of our lives In the house of Jehovah.'

Surely our sicknesses he hath borne, And our pains--he hath carried them, And we--we have esteemed him plagued, Smitten of God, and afflicted.

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? For wherefore hath not the health of the daughter of my people gone up?

And I have pursued after them with sword, with famine, and with pestilence, and have given them for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth, for a curse and for an astonishment, and for a hissing, and for a reproach among all the nations whither I have driven them,

`Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Ye have not hearkened unto Me to proclaim freedom, each to his brother, and each to his neighbour; lo, I am proclaiming to you liberty--an affirmation of Jehovah--unto the sword, unto the pestilence, and unto the famine, and I have given you for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth.

`Or--pestilence I send unto that land, and I have poured out My fury against it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast--

and Noah, Daniel, and Job, in its midst: I live--an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah--neither son nor daughter do they deliver; they, by their righteousness, deliver their own soul.

`For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Although My four sore judgments--sword, and famine, and wild beast, and pestilence--I have sent unto Jerusalem, to cut off from it man and beast,

A day of our king! Princes have polluted themselves with the poison of wine, He hath drawn out his hand with scorners.

And Jesus was going about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the reign, and healing every disease, and every malady among the people,