Psalm 41:4
New International Version
I said, “Have mercy on me, LORD; heal me, for I have sinned against you.”

New Living Translation
“O LORD,” I prayed, “have mercy on me. Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”

English Standard Version
As for me, I said, “O LORD, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against you!”

Berean Standard Bible
I said, “O LORD, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against You.”

King James Bible
I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

New King James Version
I said, “LORD, be merciful to me; Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”

New American Standard Bible
As for me, I said, “LORD, be gracious to me; Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”

NASB 1995
As for me, I said, “O LORD, be gracious to me; Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”

NASB 1977
As for me, I said, “O LORD, be gracious to me; Heal my soul, for I have sinned against Thee.”

Legacy Standard Bible
As for me, I said, “O Yahweh, be gracious to me; Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”

Amplified Bible
As for me, I said, “O LORD, be gracious to me; Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”

Christian Standard Bible
I said, “LORD, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against you.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I said, “ LORD, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against You.”

American Standard Version
I said, O Jehovah, have mercy upon me: Heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
I have said, "You are my Lord; have mercy on me and heal my soul, because I have sinned against you.”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
I said, O Lord, have mercy upon me; heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

Contemporary English Version
I prayed, "Have pity, LORD! Heal me, though I have sinned against you."

Douay-Rheims Bible
I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me : heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.

English Revised Version
I said, O LORD, have mercy upon me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I said, "O LORD, have pity on me! Heal my soul because I have sinned against you."

Good News Translation
I said, "I have sinned against you, LORD; be merciful to me and heal me."

International Standard Version
As for me, I said, "LORD, be gracious to me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you!"

JPS Tanakh 1917
As for me, I said: 'O LORD, be gracious unto me; Heal my soul; for I have sinned against Thee.'

Literal Standard Version
I said, “O YHWH, favor me, | Heal my soul, for I sinned against You,”

Majority Standard Bible
I said, “O LORD, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against You.”

New American Bible
Even I have said, “LORD, take note of me; heal me, although I have sinned against you.

NET Bible
As for me, I said: "O LORD, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you!

New Revised Standard Version
As for me, I said, “O LORD, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against you.”

New Heart English Bible
I said, "LORD, have mercy on me. Heal me, for I have sinned against you."

Webster's Bible Translation
I said, LORD, be merciful to me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

World English Bible
I said, “Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”

Young's Literal Translation
I -- I said, 'O Jehovah, favour me, Heal my soul, for I did sin against Thee,'

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Blessed is He who Cares for the Poor
3The LORD will sustain him on his bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness. 4I said, “O LORD, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against You.” 5My enemies say with malice: “When will he die and be forgotten?”…

Cross References
Exodus 15:26
saying, "If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you."

Numbers 12:13
So Moses cried out to the LORD, "O God, please heal her!"

Psalm 6:2
Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.

Psalm 41:3
The LORD will sustain him on his bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness.

Psalm 51:4
Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.

Psalm 103:3
He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,

Psalm 119:58
I have sought Your face with all my heart; be gracious to me according to Your promise.


Treasury of Scripture

I said, LORD, be merciful to me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against you.

Lord

Psalm 32:5
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

Psalm 51:1-3
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions…

heal

Psalm 6:2-4
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed…

Psalm 103:3
Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;

Psalm 147:3
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

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(4) I said.--After the general statement, the poet applies it to his own case, which showed such sadly different conduct on the part of friends from whom more than sympathy might have been expected. The pronoun is emphatic: In my case, I said, etc.

But it is a singular mark of the psalmist's sincerity and genuineness that he first looks into his own heart for its evil before exposing that of his friends.

Verse 4. - I said; rather, as for me, I said. The writer pointedly marks that he turns here from considering the blessedness of the compassionate man to contemplation of his own case - his afflictions and sufferings. Lord, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee. The worst of all his woes - the root and origin of them all - fons et origo mall, is his own sinfulness. Unless that is cured, all other alleviation is vain. Hence, after the first general cry for mercy, he goes to the root of the matter, "Heal my soul." There, within me, in the depths of my nature, is the worst malady. Heal that, and soon all will be well with me.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
I
אֲ‍ֽנִי־ (’ănî-)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I

said,
אָ֭מַרְתִּי (’ā·mar·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“O LORD,
יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

be gracious to me;
חָנֵּ֑נִי (ḥān·nê·nî)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 2603: To bend, stoop in kindness to an inferior, to favor, bestow, to implore

heal
רְפָאָ֥ה (rə·p̄ā·’āh)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 7495: To mend, to cure

me,
נַ֝פְשִׁ֗י (nap̄·šî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

for
כִּי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

I have sinned against You.”
חָטָ֥אתִי (ḥā·ṭā·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 2398: To miss, to sin, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, lead astray, condemn


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