The sacrifices of God, are a spirit that is broken, - A heart - broken and crushed, O God, thou wilt not despise.

He is healing the broken in heart, - and binding up their hurts.

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

Rise! Yahweh, Save me, my God. Surely thou hast smitten all my foes on the cheekbone, The teeth of the lawless, hast thou broken.

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

Near is Yahweh, to the broken in heart, And, the crushed in spirit, will he save.

Keeping all his bones, Not, one from among them, is broken.

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

For, the arms of the lawless, shall be broken, But Yahweh is upholding the righteous.

Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am weak, - Though I waited for one to pity me, yet there was none, And for comforters, yet I found not any.

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

Wherefore hast thou broken down its fences, So that all who pass along the way, pluck its fruit?