Psalms 147:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”
What this verse means
‘He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds’—God tenderly cares for those crushed by grief and pain.
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BSBPD
“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“He healeth the broken in heart, And bindeth up their wounds.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Who is giving healing to the broken of heart, And is binding up their griefs.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 147:3 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 5:18For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
- Psalms 34:18The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.
- Psalms 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.
- Psalms 51:17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
- Isaiah 1:5Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.
- Isaiah 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
- Isaiah 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
- Jeremiah 33:6Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
- Ezekiel 34:16I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’
- Hosea 6:1Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
- Malachi 4:2“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.
- Luke 4:18“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 proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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