Bible Verses for the Brokenhearted

“For he wounds, and binds up. He injures, and his hands make whole.”

“Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.”

“Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.”

“Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.”

“I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.”

“The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.”

“Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.”

“Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.”

“The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.”

“God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.”

“Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.”

“For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.”

“For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.”

“My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”

“My soul is weary with sorrow: strengthen me according to your word.”

“He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.”

“A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart breaks the spirit.”

“A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.”

“For Yahweh has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.”

“But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.”

“I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.”

“The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;”

“Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will wail for anguish of spirit.”

“Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.”

“Woe is me because of my injury! My wound is serious; but I said, “Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.””

““You shall say this word to them: “‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.”

“Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken. All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy words.”

“For Yahweh says, “Your hurt is incurable. Your wound is grievous.”

“Why do you cry over your injury? Your pain is incurable. For the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins have increased, I have done these things to you.”

“For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,” says Yahweh; “because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’””

“For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.””

“‘You said, “Woe is me now! For Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.”’”

““For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.””

““Look, Yahweh; for I am in distress. My heart is troubled. My heart turns over within me, for I have grievously rebelled. Abroad, the sword bereaves. At home, it is like death.”

“What shall I testify to you? What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is as big as the sea. Who can heal you?”

“He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.”

““I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.”’”

““Come, and let us return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.”

““I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.”

“Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.”

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.Isaiah 61:2; 66:10,13”

“for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’Isaiah 6:9-10”

““The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted,NU omits “to heal the broken hearted” to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,”

“For these things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.”Exodus 12:46; Numbers 9:12; Psalm 34:20”

“Again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they pierced.”Zechariah 12:10”

“For this people’s heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.’Isaiah 6:9-10”

“For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.”

“Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.”

“For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.”

“He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.”