8365. For I am Jehovah thy healer. That this signifies that the Lord alone preserves from evils, is evident from the signification of “to heal,” as being to cure, and also to preserve from evils, for when “diseases” signify evils, “to heal” signifies a remedy and preservation from them, as also frequently in the Word, thus in Moses:

I kill, and I make alive; I smite and I heal (Deuteronomy 32:39).

Heal me, O Jehovah, that I may be healed; save me that I may be saved (Jeremiah 17:14).

I will make healing to go up unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy plagues (Jeremiah 30:17).

Thou hast turned all his bed in his disease; I said, O Jehovah, have compassion on me: heal my soul because I have sinned to Thee (Psalms 41:3-4).

Besides in many other passages, as Isaiah 6:10; 53:5; 57:18-19; Jeremiah 3:22; 17:14; Hosea 6:1; 7:1; 11:3; 14:4; Zech. 11:16; Psalms 30:2; and elsewhere. And as “healing” has this signification, the Lord also calls Himself a “physician”:

Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who are ill; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance (Matthew 9:12-13; Mark 2:17; Luke 5:31-32).