Health and healing: prayers in Judaism

English · The Holy Scriptures According to the Masoretic Text (JPS), 1917Checked against a second digitisation

[A Psalm] of David.

Bless the LORD, O my soul;

And all that is within me, bless His holy name.

Bless the LORD, O my soul,

And forget not all His benefits;

Who forgiveth all thine iniquity;

Who healeth all Thy diseases;

Who redeemeth Thy life from the pit;

Who encompasseth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;

Who satisfieth thine old age with good things;

So that Thy youth is renewed like the eagle.

The LORD executeth righteousness,

And acts of justice for all that are oppressed.

He made known His ways unto Moses,

His doings unto the children of Israel.

The LORD is full of compassion and gracious,

Slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

He will not always contend;

Neither will He keep His anger for ever.

He hath not dealt with us after our sins,

Nor requited us according to our iniquities.

For as the heaven is high above the earth,

So great is His mercy toward them that fear Him.

As far as the east is from the west,

So far hath He removed our transgressions from us.

Like as a father hath compassion upon his children,

So hath the LORD compassion upon them that fear Him. For He knoweth our frame;

He remembereth that we are dust.

As for man, his days are as grass;

As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone;

And the place thereof knoweth it no more.

But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him,

And His righteousness unto children's children;

To such as keep His covenant,

And to those that remember His precepts to do them.

The LORD hath established His throne in the heavens;

And His kingdom ruleth over all.

Bless the LORD, ye angels of His,

Ye mighty in strength, that fulfil His word,

Hearkening unto the voice of His word.

Bless the LORD, all ye His hosts;

Ye ministers of His, that do His pleasure.

Bless the LORD, all ye His works,

In all places of His dominion;

Bless the LORD, O my soul.

Jewish Publication Society of America, 1917. Published 1917, before 1929, US public domain. Retrieved and verified 2026-09-17. Source

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English · The Holy Scriptures According to the Masoretic Text (JPS), 1917Read twice, independently

I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains:

From whence shall my help come?

My help cometh from the LORD,

Who made heaven and earth.

He will not suffer thy foot to be moved;

He that keepeth thee will not slumber.

Behold, He that keepeth Israel

Doth neither slumber nor sleep.

The LORD is thy keeper;

The LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.

The sun shall not smite thee by day,

Nor the moon by night.

The LORD shall keep thee from all evil;

He shall keep thy soul.

The LORD shall guard thy going out and thy coming in,

From this time forth and for ever.

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English · The Authorised Daily Prayer Book, with a New Translation, seventh edition, 1904Read twice, independently

I lift up mine eyes unto the hills : whence will my help come ?

My help is from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.

He will not suffer thy foot to slip : he that guardeth thee will not slumber.

Behold, he that guardeth Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

The Lord is thy guardian : the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.

The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

The Lord shall guard thee from all evil ; he shall guard thy soul.

The Lord shall guard thy going out and thy coming in, from this time forth and for evermore.

Simeon Singer. Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1904. Seventh edition, published 1904, before 1929, US public domain. The work first appeared in 1890 and the translator died in 1906, so it is also clear in life-plus-70 jurisdictions. Source

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English · The Holy Scriptures According to the Masoretic Text (JPS), 1917Checked against a second digitisation

For the Leader. A Psalm of David.

The LORD answer thee in the day of trouble;

The name of the God of Jacob set thee up on high;

Send forth thy help from the sanctuary,

And support thee out of Zion;

Receive the memorial of all thy meal-offerings,

And accept the fat of thy burnt-sacrifice; Selah

Grant thee according to thine own heart,

And fulfil all thy counsel.

We will shout for joy in thy victory,

And in the name of our God we will set up our standards;

The LORD fulfil all thy petitions.

Now know I that the LORD saveth His anointed;

He will answer him from His holy heaven

With the mighty acts of His saving right hand.

Some trust in chariots, and some in horses;

But we will make mention of the name of the LORD our God.

They are bowed down and fallen;

But we are risen, and stand upright.

Save, LORD;

Let the King answer us in the day that we call.

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English · The Holy Scriptures According to the Masoretic Text (JPS), 1917Checked against a second digitisation

For the Leader; with string-music; on the Sheminith. A Psalm of David.

O LORD, rebuke me not in Thine anger,

Neither chasten me in Thy wrath.

Be gracious unto me, O LORD, for I languish away;

Heal me, O LORD, for my bones are affrighted.

My soul also is sore affrighted;

And Thou, O LORD, how long?

Return, O LORD, deliver my soul;

Save me for Thy mercy's sake.

For in death there is no remembrance of Thee;

In the nether-world who will give Thee thanks?

I am weary with my groaning;

Every night make I my bed to swim;

I melt away my couch with my tears.

Mine eye is dimmed because of vexation;

It waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.

Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity;

For the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.

The LORD hath heard my supplication;

The LORD receiveth my prayer.

All mine enemies shall be ashamed and sore affrighted;

They shall turn back, they shall be ashamed suddenly.

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English · The Holy Scriptures According to the Masoretic Text (JPS), 1917Checked against a second digitisation

O thou that dwellest in the covert of the Most High,

And abidest in the shadow of the Almighty;

I will say of the LORD, who is my refuge and my fortress,

My God, in whom I trust,

That He will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler,

And from the noisome pestilence.

He will cover thee with His pinions,

And under His wings shalt thou take refuge;

His truth is a shield and a buckler.

Thou shalt not be afraid of the terror by night,

Nor of the arrow that flieth by day;

Of the pestilence that walketh in darkness,

Nor of the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

A thousand may fall at Thy side,

And ten thousand at Thy right hand;

It shall not come nigh thee.

Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold,

And see the recompense of the wicked.

For thou hast made the LORD who is my refuge,

Even the Most High, thy habitation.

There shall no evil befall thee,

Neither shall any plague come nigh thy tent.

For He will give His angels charge over thee,

To keep thee in all thy ways.

They shall bear thee upon their hands,

Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Thou shalt tread upon the lion and asp;

The young lion and the serpent shalt thou trample under feet.

'Because he hath set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him;

I will set him on high, because he hath known My name.

He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble;

I will rescue him, and bring him to honour.

With long life will I satisfy him,

And make Him to behold My salvation.'

Jewish Publication Society of America, 1917. Published 1917, before 1929, US public domain. Retrieved and verified 2026-09-17. Source

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