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Bible Verses About Broken Heart

Healing for the shattered spirit.

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Healing for a shattered spirit begins with the profound truth that the Lord is intimately near to those who are hurting. When your world has been turned upside down by loss or pain, His tender-hearted mercy acts as a balm for your deepest wounds. You can find a safe refuge in His comfort, knowing that He who fashioned your heart is also the one who is able to bind up its fractures. Lean into the hope of His restorative presence as He walks with you through the valley of weeping.

Key Passages

"Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth."

"For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes."

"Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God."

"¶ I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him."

"I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners."

"And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him."

"And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him."

"¶ Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him."

"I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners."

"To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;"

"Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother."

"Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow."

"What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?"

"In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not."

"Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted."

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,"

"And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more."

"And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her."

"Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens."

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

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

"He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not."

"¶ Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted."

"Jesus wept."

"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away."

"Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God."

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