8365. 'For I, Jehovah, am your Healer' means that the Lord alone preserves them from evils. This is clear from the meaning of 'healing' as curing of and also preserving from evils; for when evils are meant by 'sicknesses', curing people of them and preserving them from them is meant by 'healing', [here] and also many times in the Word, such as in Moses,
I kill and I make alive, I strike and I heal. Deut 32:39.
In Jeremiah,
Heal me, O Jehovah, in order that I may be healed; save me, in order that I may be saved. Jer 17:14.
In the same prophet,
I will restore health to youa and heal you of your blows. Jer 30:17.
In David,
His whole bed you have turned in his sickness.b I said, O Jehovah, be merciful to me; heal my soul, for I have sinned against You. Ps 41:3, 4.
The same may be seen in many other places besides these, such as Isa 6:10; 53:5; 57:18,19; Jer 3:22; 17:14; Hosea 6:1; 7:1; 11:3; 14:4; Zech 11:16; Ps 30:2; and elsewhere. And since 'healing' had this meaning, the Lord also calls Himself 'a physician',Those who are well have no need of a physician but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Matt 9:12, 13; Mark 2:17; Luke 5:31,32.
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