27 Bible Verses about Brokenness

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

Jehovah is near to the broken of heart, and he will save the humble of spirit

Thou wilt cause me to hear joy and gladness; the bones thou didst break shall rejoice.

For thus said the high and lifted up inhabiting eternity, and his name Holy; being lifted up, and I will dwell in the holy place, and with the broken and humble of spirit, to preserve alive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the broken.

And all these my hand made, and all these shall be, says Jehovah: and to this will I look, to the humble. and smitten of spirit, and trembling at my word.

And I poured out upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and supplications: and they looked to me whom they pierced, and they mourned for him as mourning for the only begotten, and being embittered for him as being embittered for the first-born.

Healing to the broken of heart, and binding up their pains.

Reproach broke my heart, and I shall be ill at ease: and I shall hope for comforting, and none; and for those consoling, and I found not

Because he remembered not to do mercy, and he will pursue the poor and needy man to slay the dejected of heart.

The spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah anointed me to announce good news to the afflicted, he sent me to bind up to the broken of heart, to call freedom to the captives, and the opening of the prison to the bound.

For the prophets my heart was broken in the midst of me, and all my bones were relaxed; I was as a man intoxicated, and as a man wine passing over him, from the face of Jehovah, and from the face of the words of his holiness.

And thou son of man, sigh with the breaking of the loins; and with bitterness thou shalt sigh before their eyes. And it was when they shall say to thee, For what sighest thou? and say, For the report, because it came: and every heart melted and all hands were relaxed, and every spirit was weak, and all knees shall go into water: behold, it came, and it was, says the Lord Jehovah.

My spirit being destroyed my days were extinct; the graves are for me.

But prayer is nothing; he will send forth the hand, if in his calamity to them a cry for help.

If my land shall cry against me, and its, furrows shall weep together; If I ate its strength without silver, and caused its possessors to expire: The thorn shall come forth, instead of wheat, and the weed instead of barley. The words of Job were completed

Breaking the transgressing and the sinning together, and they forsaking Jehovah shall be finished.

The womb shall forget him; the worm sucked him; he shall be no more remembered: and iniquity shall be broken as a tree.

Ye shall not say, A conspiracy to all whom this people shall say a conspiracy; and ye shall not fear their fear, and ye shall not be afraid. Jehovah of armies, him shall ye consecrate; and he your fear, and he your terror. And he was for a holy place and for a stone of striking, and for a rock of falling to the two houses of Israel; for a trap net and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.read more.
And many fainted among them and fell, and were broken, and snared, and taken.

Behold, my servants shall shout from good of heart, but ye shall cry from pain of heart, and wail from breaking of spirit And ye set down your name for a curse to my chosen: and the Lord Jehovah slaying thee, and he will call his servants another name.

I live says Jehovah, for if Coniah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, shall be the seal upon my right hand, I will pluck thee off from thence. And I gave thee into the hand of those seeking thy soul, and into the hand of whom thou fearest their face, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, and into the hand of the Chaldeans And I cast thee and thy mother who bare thee upon another land where ye were not born there, and there shall ye die.read more.
And upon the land where they lift up their soul to turn back there, there they shall not turn back. Is this man Coniah a despised broken earthen vessel? or a vessel no delight in it? wherefore they were cast out, he and his seed, and they were cast upon a land which they knew not O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Jehovah. Thus said Jehovah, Write ye this man destitute, a man shall not prosper in his days: for not a man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling yet in Judah.

And thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and thou shalt lie with the wounded of the sword.

Moab was broken; her youths caused a cry to be heard. For the going up of Luhith weeping shall go up with weeping; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies heard a cry of breaking.

How was the hammer of all the earth cut off, and it will be broken! How was Babel for a desolation among the nations! I laid snares for thee and also thou wert taken, O Babel, and thou knewest not: thou wert found and thou wert also taken, for thou didst contend against Jehovah.

Flee from the midst of Babel and save ye each his soul: ye shall not be destroyed in her iniquity: for it is the time of vengeance to Jehovah; he will do to her a recompense. Babel a cup of gold in the hand of Jehovah, making all the earth drunk: the nations drank from her wine; for this the nations will be foolish. Babylon fell suddenly, and she will be broken: wail ye for her; take balsam for her pain, perhaps she will be healed.read more.
We healed Babel, and she was not healed: forsake ye her and we will go each to his land: for her judgment reached to the heavens, and was lifted up even to the clouds. Jehovah brought forth our justice: come ye, and we will recount in Zion the work of Jehovah our God.

Thus said Jehovah, The heavens my throne, and the earth the footstool of my feet: where this house which ye will build to me? and where this place of my rest? And all these my hand made, and all these shall be, says Jehovah: and to this will I look, to the humble. and smitten of spirit, and trembling at my word.

For thou wilt not delight in sacrifice, and thou wilt not take pleasure in burnt-offering. The sacrifices of God a spirit being broken: a heart being broken and crushed, O God, thou wilt not despise.

And he shall say, Lift ye up, lift ye up; clear the way, take up the stumbling block out of the way of my people. For thus said the high and lifted up inhabiting eternity, and his name Holy; being lifted up, and I will dwell in the holy place, and with the broken and humble of spirit, to preserve alive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the broken. For not forever will I contend, and not to everlasting will I be angry: for the spirit will faint from before me, and the lives I made.read more.
For the iniquity of his plunder was I angry, and I will smite him: covering myself, and I will be angry, and he went turning away in the way of his heart. I saw his ways, and I will heal him: and I will lead him and I will restore comforts to him, and to his mourners. Creating the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him being far off, and to him being near, said Jehovah; and I healed him. And the unjust as the tossed sea when it shall not be able to rest, and its waters will toss up mud and mire; no peace, said God, to the unjust.