He heals the brokenhearted And binds up their wounds.
Parallel translations
- WEB He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
- KJV He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
- BSB He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
- NASB He heals the brokenhearted And binds up their wounds.
- NLT He heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds.
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God heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. The mighty Creator tenderly cares for the wounded and grieving.
Overview
The God who restores a nation also ministers to individual sorrow, healing broken hearts and bandaging wounds. His greatness and His gentleness go together. Jesus came to heal the brokenhearted, bringing this comfort to its fullness (Luke 4:18; Isaiah 61:1).
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Cross-references · 11
- Ps 34:18Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.
- Job 5:18For he wounds, and binds up. He injures, and his hands make whole.
- Jer 33:6‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.
- 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 heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
- Isa 61:1The 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;
- Hos 6:1–2“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.
- Ps 51:17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
- Isa 57:15For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
- Mal 4:2But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
- Ezek 34:16I 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 the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.
- Isa 1:5–6Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
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