Jeremiah 30:17

30:17 Yes, ¹  I will restore you to health.

I will heal your wounds.

I, the Lord, affirm it! ² 

For you have been called an outcast,

Zion, whom no one cares for.”

Jeremiah 33:6

33:6 But I will most surely ³  heal the wounds of this city and restore it and its people to health. ⁴  I will show them abundant ⁵  peace and security.

Matthew 9:12

9:12 When ⁶  Jesus heard this he said, “Those who are healthy don’t need a physician, but those who are sick do. ⁷ 

¹ tn Again the particle כִּי (ki) appears to be intensive rather than causal. Compare the translator’s note on v. 12. It is possible that it has an adversative sense as an implicit contrast with v. 13 which expresses these concepts in the negative (cf. BDB 474 s.v. כִּי 3.e for this use in statements which are contextually closer to one another).

² tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

³ tn Heb “Behold I am healing.” For the usage of the particle “behold” indicating certainty see the translator’s note on 1:6. These are the great and hidden things that the Lord promised to reveal. The statements in v. 5 have been somewhat introductory. See the usage of הִנְנִי (hinni) after the introductory “Thus says the Lord” in Jer 32:28, 37.

⁴ sn Compare Jer 30:17. Jerusalem is again being personified and her political and spiritual well-being are again in view.

⁵ tn The meaning and text of this word is questioned by KBL 749 s.v. עֲתֶרֶת. However, KBL also emends both occurrences of the verb from which BDB 801 s.v. עֲתֶרֶת derives this noun. BDB is more likely correct in seeing this and the usage of the verb in Prov 27:6; Ezek 35:13 as Aramaic loan words from a root meaning to be rich (equivalent to the Hebrew עָשַׁר, ’ashar).

⁶ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

⁷ sn Jesus’ point is that he associates with those who are sick because they have the need and will respond to the offer of help. A person who is healthy (or who thinks mistakenly that he is) will not seek treatment.