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²⁶saying: “If you will listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his sight, and obey his commands, and keep all his precepts, I will not bring upon you any of the distress that I imposed on Egypt. For I am the Lord, your healer.”

²⁵And you shall serve the Lord your God, so that I may bless your bread and your waters, and so that I may take away sickness from your midst.

⁶Behold, I will lead over them scars and health, and I will cure them. And I will reveal to them an invocation of peace and truth.

³He forgives all your iniquities. He heals all your infirmities.

²²A joyful soul makes a lifetime flourish. A gloomy spirit dries out the bones.

²⁰He sent his word, and he healed them, and he rescued them from their utter destruction.

¹⁴and if my people, over whom my name has been invoked, being converted, will have petitioned me and sought my face, and will have done penance for their wicked ways, then I will heed them from heaven, and I will forgive their sins, and I will heal their land.

²Bless the Lord, O my soul, and do not forget all his recompenses. ³He forgives all your iniquities. He heals all your infirmities. ⁴He redeems your life from destruction. He crowns you with mercy and compassion.

⁷And lest the greatness of the revelations should extol me, there was given to me a prodding in my flesh: an angel of Satan, who struck me repeatedly. ⁸Because of this, three times I petitioned the Lord that it might be taken away from me. ⁹And he said to me: “My grace is sufficient for you. For virtue is perfected in weakness.” And so, willingly shall I glory in my weaknesses, so that the virtue of Christ may live within me. ¹⁰Because of this, I am pleased in my infirmity: in reproaches, in difficulties, in persecutions, in distresses, for the sake of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am powerful.

²⁶And she had endured much from several physicians, and she had spent everything she owned with no benefit at all, but instead she became worse.