Bible Verses About Brokenness

The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.

Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.

Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

For thus saith the Lord, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.

He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:

When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

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

Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am weak: O Lord, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the Lord, and because of the words of his holiness.

And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.

All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod!

He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.

Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.

Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

I will seek that which was lost, and bring again 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 with judgment.

Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.