30 Bible Verses about A Broken Heart

Yahweh [is] near to [those who are] heartbroken and saves [those who are] crushed in spirit.

[He is] the one who heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds.

The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit; A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

A heart of gladness will make good {countenance}, but in sorrow of heart a spirit is broken.

because he did not remember to show loyal love, but he pursued anyone, poor or needy or brokenhearted, to slay [them].

[The] Spirit of the Lord Yahweh [is] upon me, because Yahweh has anointed me, he has sent me to bring good news [to the] oppressed, to bind up {the brokenhearted}, to {proclaim} release to [the] captives and liberation to those who are bound,

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a downcast spirit will dry out bones.

[He] protects all his bones; not one of them is broken.

Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick. And I hoped for sympathy, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

Heal me, Yahweh, and I will be healed, save me, and I will be saved, for you [are] my praise.

But Hannah answered and said, "No, my lord. I am a woman {deeply distressed}, but I have not drunk wine [or] strong drink. [Rather], I have poured out my soul before Yahweh.

"My days are past; my plans are broken down-- [even] the desires of my heart.

I have become forgotten like [one] dead, out of {mind}. I am like a destroyed vessel.

for I [am] poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

For thus says [the] high and lofty one who resides forever, and [whose] name [is] holy: "I reside [in] a high and holy place, and with [the] {contrite} and humble of spirit, to revive [the] spirit of [the] humble, and to revive [the] heart of [the] {contrite}.

I am faint and crushed greatly; I groan because of the roaring of my heart.

The spirit of a man will endure his sickness, but a broken spirit, who may bear it?

Their sword will enter into their [own] heart, and their bows shall be broken.

Break [the] arm of [the] wicked, and [as for the] evil [man]-- seek out his wickedness [until] you find none.

Look! My servants shall shout {for joy}, but you, you shall cry out {for pain} and howl {for sadness}.

A heart of tranquility [is] life [to the] flesh, but causes bones of passion to rot.

if I have eaten its yield without payment, or I have caused [the] breath of its owners to die,

And you, son of man, groan {with shaking hips}, and you must groan with bitterness before their eyes.

and wine [that] makes glad [the] heart of man, so that [their] faces shine from oil, and bread [that] strengthens the heart of man.

The heart knows the bitterness of its soul, but in its joy, it will not share itself with a stranger.

Make me hear joy and gladness; let [the] bones you have crushed rejoice.

Yahweh [is] near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

And my hand has made all these [things], and all these {came to be}," {declares} Yahweh, "but I look to this [one]: to [the] humble and [the] contrite of spirit and [the one] frightened at my word.

"Because of the wound of the daughter of my people I am broken down, I mourn, horror has seized me.