Bible Verses about “brokenness”

“Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don't lean on your own understanding.”

“In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.”

“Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.”

“Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.”

“He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.”

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.”

“I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.”

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.”

“"Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.”

“Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.”

“Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.”

“"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.”

“Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.”

“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.”

“But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."”

“He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,”

“The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.”

“Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.”

“For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.”

“House of Israel, can't I do with you as this potter? says Yahweh. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.”

“When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.”

“Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.”

“Then I went down to the potter's house, and behold, he was making a work on the wheels.”

“Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,”

“For all these things has my hand made, and [so] all these things came to be," says Yahweh: "but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.”

“For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.”

“Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,”

“Thus says Yahweh, "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what kind of house will you build to me? and what place shall be my rest?”

“The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,”

“Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? [or] shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?”

“who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;”

“I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.”

“At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;”

“if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.”

“At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;”

“if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.”

“Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return you now everyone from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.”

“But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart.”

“Therefore thus says Yahweh: Ask now among the nations, who has heard such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.”

“For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false [gods]; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;”

“to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.”

“I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.”

“Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”

“Give heed to me, Yahweh, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.”

“Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.”

“Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.”

“Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.”

“Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; don't forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you; deal you with them in the time of your anger.”