Jeremiah 30:17

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For I will restore health to you and heal you of your wounds, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 30:17 (NKJV)

But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds, declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 30:17 (NIV)

For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 30:17 (KJV)

I will give you back your health and heal your wounds, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 30:17 (NLT)

For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 30:17 (ESV)

For I will restore you to health and I will heal you of your wounds, declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 30:17 (NASB)

For I will restore health to you and I will heal your wounds, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 30:17 (AMP)

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For I will restore health to you and I will heal your wounds, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 30:17 (AMPC)

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As for you, I'll come with healing, curing the incurable, because they all gave up on you and dismissed you.

Jeremiah 30:17 (MSG)

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New Covenant Meaning

Restoration, Not Just Management: The Promise Is Complete Health

The Hebrew word arukah (translated health in the NKJV) means restoration to original wholeness. God is not promising to manage your illness. He is promising to restore health itself. This is not partial improvement or symptom relief. It is the return to the condition before the wound. Jeremiah 30 is addressed to people in deep exile, to whom restoration seemed impossible. God speaks the promise anyway. The impossibility of the human situation does not revise the scope of the divine promise. Where a wound exists, God promises restoration. Where health has been taken, God promises it back.

The Incurable Is God's Specialty

The context of Jeremiah 30:17 includes the statement from verse 15 that your affliction is incurable. The surrounding nations have given up on Israel. From a human standpoint, the wound is too severe. God's response is to make the promise more specific: precisely because they said you were incurable, I will heal you. This is the category in which God works most visibly. The incurable is not outside His ability. It is where His character as healer is most clearly displayed. When the diagnosis is impossible, the promise of Jeremiah 30:17 becomes the most relevant.

Jeremiah 30 is the beginning of the Book of Consolation (chapters 30-33), a section of hope within the otherwise largely dark prophecy of Jeremiah. God turns from judgment to restoration: I will bring back the captives of My people (30:3). The healing promise of verse 17 is embedded in this larger vision of restoration. God will restore their fortunes (v. 18), restore their honor (v. 19), be their God while they are His people (v. 22). Physical healing and national restoration are part of the same comprehensive promise. In Christ, this restoration extends to every believer. The Book of Consolation promises what the cross accomplished.

Application

Bring the Incurable to the God Who Specializes in It

Jeremiah 30:17 was spoken specifically over a situation the surrounding nations had written off. If you have received a diagnosis that medical science calls incurable, you have arrived at the category where this promise speaks most directly. God did not say He would consider healing what the doctors called hopeless. He said I will restore health to you. The promise is not conditional on the severity of the condition. It is unconditional on the character of the one making it.

The Wound That Has Gone Unhealed for Years Is Still Within This Promise

Some people have been carrying a wound, physical or otherwise, for so long that they have stopped bringing it to God. The length of time a wound has been present does not disqualify it from this promise. God restores health and heals wounds. The wound may be old. The promise is current. Bring what has gone unhealed back into the presence of the one who said I will heal you. The passage of time does not diminish the promise.

Prayer

Father, I bring this wound to You. I bring this condition that has been called incurable, or that I have stopped asking about because I assumed the answer was no. You said You will restore health. You said You will heal wounds. I receive that promise today. The impossibility of my situation from a human standpoint does not revise what You have said. I trust Your word more than I trust the report. In Jesus name. Amen.