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.

He heals the broken in heart, and binds 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.

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.

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

Why have You broken down its walls
so that all who pass by pick its fruit?

You have broken down all his walls;
You have reduced his fortified cities to ruins.

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

He has broken my strength in midcourse;
He has shortened my days.

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.

O God, the nations have come into your heritage; they have made your holy Temple unclean; they have made Jerusalem a mass of broken walls.

The haters of the Lord would be broken, and their destruction would be eternal.

The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.

I will have those who are against him broken before his face, and his haters will be crushed under my blows.

If my rules are broken, and my orders are not kept;

Your doors are broken down with hammers and iron blades.

The sea was parted in two by your strength; the heads of the great sea-beasts were broken.

There were the arrows of the bow broken, there he put an end to body-cover, sword, and fight. (Selah.)

The rocks of the waste land were broken by his power, and he gave them drink as out of the deep waters.

For He has broken down the bronze gates
and cut through the iron bars.

He has put them in their places for ever; he has given them their limits which may not be broken.

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

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

It is time for the Lord to act,
for they have violated Your instruction.

Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.

The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.

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

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.

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

Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

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

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

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

To the Overseer. -- 'Concerning the Lily of Testimony,' a secret treasure of David, to teach, in his striving with Aram-Naharaim, and with Aram-Zobah, and Joab turneth back and smiteth Edom in the valley of Salt -- twelve thousand. O God, Thou hadst cast us off, Thou hadst broken us -- hadst been angry! -- Thou dost turn back to us.

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

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.

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