30 Bible Verses about A Broken Heart

Tzaddi The LORD is near unto those that are of a broken heart and saves such as are of a contrite spirit.

He heals the broken hearted, and he binds up their wounds.

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

A joyful heart makes a beautiful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is abated.

Because he did not remember to show mercy but persecuted the man who is poor in spirit and destitute and broken in heart, that he might slay him.

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me because the LORD has anointed me; he has sent me to preach good tidings unto those who are cast down; to bind up the wounds of the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those that are bound;

A joyful heart shall do good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.

Resh keeping all his bones; not one of them shall be broken.

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness, and I looked for some to take pity, but there was no one, and for comforters, but I found none.

Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.

And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit; I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink but have poured out my soul before the LORD.

My days are past, my thoughts were broken off, even the purposes of my heart.

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I have become like a lost vessel.

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

For thus has said the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is The Holy One; I dwell in the high place and in holiness and with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to cause the spirit of the humble to live and to cause the heart of the contrite ones to live.

I am feeble and sore broken; I roar by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

The spirit of man will bear his infirmity, but a broken spirit who can bear?

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

Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man; seek out his wickedness until thou find none.

Behold, my slaves shall rejoice by the joy of their heart, but ye shall cry for the sorrow of your heart and shall howl for the destruction of spirit.

A sound heart is life to the flesh, but envy is rottenness of the bones.

if I ate of its strength without money or have afflicted the soul of its owners;

Cry out therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness cry out before their eyes.

and wine that makes glad the heart of man, making his face to shine with oil and bread which sustains man's heart.

The heart knows the bitterness of his soul, and a stranger shall not intermeddle with his joy.

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

Koph The LORD is near unto all those that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.

For all these things my hand has made, by my hand has these things been, said the LORD; but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit and trembles at my word.

For the destruction of the daughter of my people I am devastated; I am in darkness; astonishment has taken hold on me.