As when one plows and breaks up the soil,
turning up rocks,
so our bones have been scattered
at the mouth of Sheol.

My [only] sacrifice [acceptable] to God is a broken spirit;
A broken and contrite heart [broken with sorrow for sin, thoroughly penitent], such, O God, You will not despise.

My strength is dried up like broken pottery; my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth, and you have brought me down to the dust of death.

He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

Because they have no respect for the works of the Lord, or for the things which his hands have made, they will be broken down and not lifted up by him.

The voice of Yahweh, is breaking cedars, Now hath Yahweh, broken down, the cedars of Lebanon!

I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind;
I am like a broken vessel.

For he hath broken the gates of brass, and smitten the bars of iron in sunder.

I am become like a pelican in the wilderness, and like an owl in a broken wall.

The Lord is near to the heartbroken
And He saves those who are crushed in spirit (contrite in heart, truly sorry for their sin).

He keeps all his bones;
Not one of them is broken.

The sword [of the ungodly] will enter their own heart,
And their bow will be broken.

For the arms of the wicked will be broken,
But the Lord upholds and sustains the righteous [who seek Him].

Yet You have [distressingly] crushed us in the place of jackals
And covered us with [the deep darkness of] the shadow of death.

Our soul is escaped, even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler; the snare is broken and we are delivered.

Behold, O LORD, how that I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid. Thou hast broken my bonds in sunder.

He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

Make me hear joy and gladness and be satisfied;
Let the bones which You have broken rejoice.

He [my companion] has put out his hands against those who were at peace with him;
He has broken his covenant [of friendship and loyalty].

Rise, O Jehovah! save me, my God. Because Thou hast smitten All mine enemies on the cheek. The teeth of the wicked Thou hast broken.

I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

He hath made them fast for ever and ever; he hath given them a law which shall not be broken.

O God, You have rejected us and cast us off. You have broken [down our defenses and scattered] us;
You have been angry; O restore us and turn again to us.

Reproach and insults have broken my heart and I am so sick.
I looked for sympathy, but there was none,
And for comforters, but I found none.

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

Thou hast broken by Thy strength a sea -monster, Thou hast shivered Heads of dragons by the waters,

Thou hast broken the heads of leviathan, Thou makest him food, For the people of the dry places.

Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

May they flow away like rain water that runs off, may they become like someone who shoots broken arrows.

Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.

Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.

Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

And He calleth a famine on the land, The whole staff of bread He hath broken.

Broken hath my soul for desire Unto Thy judgments at all times.

Thou hast broken the covenant of thy servant, and cast his crown to the ground.

But turned their backs, and fell away like their forefathers, starting aside like a broken bow.

For I had kept the ways of Yahweh, and not broken away from my God;

With an east wind thou hast broken the ships of Tarshish.

There, hath he broken in pieces the arrows of the bow, shield and sword, and battle. Selah.