At that time Jeroboam’s son Abijah became sick.

You will lie down with no one to make you afraid, and many will seek your favor.

I seek your favor with all my heart. Have mercy on me as you promised!

Rich people from Tyre will seek your favor by bringing a gift.

Then I said, “I am sickened by the thought that the sovereign One might become inactive.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is like a tree of life.

Many people entreat the favor of a generous person, and everyone is the friend of the person who gives gifts.

Sustain me with raisin cakes, refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love. The Double Refrain: Embracing and Adjuration

This is the prayer of King Hezekiah of Judah when he was sick and then recovered from his illness:

Moreover, the Lord says to the people of Zion, “Your injuries are incurable; your wounds are severe.

I will strike you brutally and destroy you because of your sin.

When Saul sent messengers to arrest David, she said, “He’s sick.”

In his pain Manasseh asked the Lord his God for mercy and truly humbled himself before the God of his ancestors.

Archers shot King Josiah; the king ordered his servants, “Take me out of this chariot, for I am seriously wounded.”

When they were sick, I wore sackcloth, and refrained from eating food. (If I am lying, may my prayers go unanswered!)

You will say, “They have struck me, but I am not harmed! They beat me, but I did not know it! When will I awake? I will look for another drink.”

Here is a misfortune on earth that I have seen: Wealth hoarded by its owner to his own misery.

All of them respond to you, saying: ‘You too have become weak like us! You have become just like us!

The day you begin cultivating, you do what you can to make it grow; the morning you begin planting, you do what you can to make it sprout. Yet the harvest will disappear in the day of disease and incurable pain.

No resident of Zion will say, “I am ill”; the people who live there will have their sin forgiven.